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 Israel and from Lille.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool Moe Dee,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Mandrill,
Hoover,
K-Klass,
Kenny Larkin,
Maleditus Sound,
The Smoke,
David Bowie,
Sonny Sharrock,
Scott Walker,
Anthony Braxton,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Trumans Water,
Motorama,
Neil Young,
The Durutti Column,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Cymande,
The Last Poets,
Second Layer,
Flash Fearless,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Brass Construction,
Funkadelic,
Clear Light,
World's Most,
Severed Heads,
The Buckinghams,
Nik Kershaw,
John Cale,
Niagra,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Public Image Ltd.,
The United States of America,
L. Decosne,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Accadde A,
Susan Cadogan,
The Fugs,
The Barracudas,
Altered Images,
Newcleus,
Brand Nubian,
Eurythmics,
This Heat,
Ludus,
48th St. Collective,
Toni Rubio,
New Order,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Maurizio,
Gong,
The Smiths,
Matthew Halsall,
Aloha Tigers,
Alton Ellis,
Buzzcocks,
Tim Buckley,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Talk Talk,
Zapp, Zapp, Zapp, Zapp.
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.