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 Ivory Coast and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Easy Going to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Urselle,
The Beau Brummels,
Second Layer,
Kerri Chandler,
Young Marble Giants,
the Germs,
Hoover,
The American Breed,
Don Cherry,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Wire,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Con Funk Shun,
48th St. Collective,
Accadde A,
R.M.O.,
Sexual Harrassment,
Arthur Verocai,
Animal Collective,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lalo Schifrin,
Donny Hathaway,
Reagan Youth,
The Sonics,
Ronnie Foster,
Fluxion,
Scientists,
Deepchord,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Terrestrial Tones,
Oblivians,
Traffic Nightmare,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The United States of America,
Roxette,
Andrew Hill,
Lou Reed,
The Divine Comedy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
La Düsseldorf,
Bang On A Can,
Boogie Down Productions,
Rekid,
Josef K,
These Immortal Souls,
Section 25,
Unrelated Segments,
Swell Maps,
Scion,
Sonny Sharrock,
Altered Images,
Gong,
Jimmy McGriff,
DJ Style,
Danielle Patucci,
EPMD,
Kevin Saunderson,
Negative Approach,
FM Einheit,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.