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 United States and from Delhi.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Nation of Ulysses to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Blake Baxter. All the underground hits.
All Kerrie Biddell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jimmy McGriff,
Niagra,
Cybotron,
Motorama,
Metal Thangz,
The Gories,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
KRS-One,
Symarip,
Radio Birdman,
Bauhaus,
Severed Heads,
Black Pus,
Warren Ellis,
H. Thieme,
The Martian,
Circle Jerks,
Matthew Bourne,
Erasure,
Yellowson,
John Foxx,
Deadbeat,
Dual Sessions,
Duran Duran,
Electric Prunes,
Kerrie Biddell,
Charles Mingus,
Soul II Soul,
Michelle Simonal,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Harpers Bizarre,
Basic Channel,
Kevin Saunderson,
Q65,
Blossom Toes,
cv313,
Fela Kuti,
ABBA,
Scientists,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bill Near,
Camouflage,
Skaos,
Maleditus Sound,
Lalann,
The Leaves,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Iggy Pop,
Ossler,
Das Ding,
Monolake,
Tomorrow,
Man Parrish,
David McCallum,
Aural Exciters,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Jesper Dahlback,
Todd Rundgren,
The Mojo Men,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan.
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.