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 Chad and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Junior Murvin to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Godley & Creme,
Buzzcocks,
The Move,
Tubeway Army,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Archie Shepp,
Neu!,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Faraquet,
Boz Scaggs,
the Association,
Duran Duran,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Joey Negro,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Echospace,
Q65,
Absolute Body Control,
Eurythmics,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Accadde A,
Subhumans,
The Toasters,
Heaven 17,
Dark Day,
Panda Bear,
Drexciya,
China Crisis,
Stockholm Monsters,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pere Ubu,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Don Cherry,
Animal Collective,
Barrington Levy,
The American Breed,
Danielle Patucci,
Michelle Simonal,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Visage,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bauhaus,
Wings,
Ponytail,
Jandek,
Aural Exciters,
Intrusion,
Swell Maps,
Tropical Tobacco,
One Last Wish,
Carl Craig,
Oneida,
The Associates,
Zero Boys,
Dennis Brown,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
John Lydon,
Iggy Pop,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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.