Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Haiti and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Mr. Review to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Misunderstood. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hot Snakes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Symarip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
Rosa Yemen,
The Walker Brothers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Y Pants,
Rod Modell,
Swans,
Matthew Halsall,
Sister Nancy,
Public Image Ltd.,
Althea and Donna,
The Misunderstood,
The Grass Roots,
Basic Channel,
Scott Walker,
Hashim,
Kenny Larkin,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Colin Newman,
Harmonia,
Rekid,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Angels of Light,
Kevin Saunderson,
Grauzone,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Echospace,
The Searchers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lower 48,
Donald Byrd,
Pulsallama,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Josef K,
Rites of Spring,
Technova,
A Certain Ratio,
Alphaville,
Delta 5,
Marmalade,
Siglo XX,
Bang On A Can,
One Last Wish,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tomorrow,
Don Cherry,
DJ Sneak,
Massinfluence,
Terrestrial Tones,
David McCallum,
Kool Moe Dee,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Laurel Aitken,
Zero Boys,
Anakelly,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Hoover,
Amon Düül,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.