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 Colombia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 chamberlin 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 Pere Ubu to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 James White and The Blacks. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Glambeats Corp. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Smiths,
Rosa Yemen,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Infiniti,
Warren Ellis,
The Human League,
The Golliwogs,
The Residents,
The Busters,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pantaleimon,
Kerri Chandler,
Danielle Patucci,
Duran Duran,
Minny Pops,
Tom Boy,
The Detroit Cobras,
Joe Finger,
Anakelly,
Peter & Gordon,
Fela Kuti,
Icehouse,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Faust,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Cecil Taylor,
Althea and Donna,
Deadbeat,
Stiv Bators,
the Germs,
Bobby Sherman,
Slick Rick,
Crash Course in Science,
The Slackers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Livin' Joy,
Faraquet,
Man Eating Sloth,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Eddi Front,
H. Thieme,
Marshall Jefferson,
Piero Umiliani,
Soul II Soul,
Whodini,
Pantytec,
Swell Maps,
10cc,
Chris Corsano,
China Crisis,
Deepchord,
Youth Brigade,
Reuben Wilson,
Blancmange,
Laurel Aitken,
Nirvana,
Eric B and Rakim,
Fatback Band,
The Associates,
Amazonics,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.