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 France and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the electroclash 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 The Cramps. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nas,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Names,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Wolf Eyes,
Lower 48,
Severed Heads,
Moby Grape,
The Gap Band,
Maleditus Sound,
Pere Ubu,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Fall,
Main Source,
The Sonics,
David Axelrod,
New Age Steppers,
Sound Behaviour,
New York Dolls,
CMW,
MDC,
Heaven 17,
Buzzcocks,
The Martian,
Steve Hackett,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
kango's stein massive,
Eve St. Jones,
Massinfluence,
Con Funk Shun,
Y Pants,
T. Rex,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Connie Case,
Slick Rick,
Sonny Sharrock,
F. McDonald,
Bang On A Can,
Pussy Galore,
Crispian St. Peters,
Thompson Twins,
Audionom,
The Residents,
Graham Central Station,
The Wake,
The Knickerbockers,
The Velvet Underground,
Maurizio,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Faust,
Crime,
Lyres,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Monks,
A Certain Ratio,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Agitation Free,
The Black Dice,
Josef K,
Trumans Water,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.