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 the UAE and from London.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Angels of Light to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
Mantronix,
Jeff Lynne,
Colin Newman,
Subhumans,
Brand Nubian,
Radio Birdman,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kerri Chandler,
The Durutti Column,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
New York Dolls,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Real Kids,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Warsaw,
Jeru the Damaja,
the Association,
Accadde A,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rakim,
The Last Poets,
The Zeros,
CMW,
Yaz,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ituana,
Kerrie Biddell,
Robert Hood,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eric Dolphy,
Soulsonic Force,
The Vogues,
Marmalade,
Das Ding,
The Gladiators,
Eden Ahbez,
Black Moon,
A Certain Ratio,
Derrick May,
Mo-Dettes,
Slave,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Popol Vuh,
The Alarm Clocks,
Young Marble Giants,
Ultravox,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bill Wells,
The Monochrome Set,
Malaria!,
Flamin' Groovies,
Gang of Four,
The Move,
Cecil Taylor,
Groovy Waters,
Siglo XX,
Jandek,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Amazonics,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.