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 Guatemala and from Manchester.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Jerry's Kids to the grunge 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 Faraquet. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vladislav Delay 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Supertramp,
Robert Wyatt,
La Düsseldorf,
Tubeway Army,
Crooked Eye,
Pantytec,
Arthur Verocai,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Amazonics,
Jandek,
The Barracudas,
David Axelrod,
Brick,
Juan Atkins,
The Sound,
Bad Manners,
Kayak,
Kenny Larkin,
Carl Craig,
Joe Finger,
The Grass Roots,
Schoolly D,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Charles Mingus,
Jimmy McGriff,
Michelle Simonal,
Godley & Creme,
E-Dancer,
Marine Girls,
Johnny Clarke,
Kaleidoscope,
Junior Murvin,
Marc Almond,
World's Most,
Flash Fearless,
Blossom Toes,
Japan,
Robert Hood,
The Moleskins,
The Mojo Men,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Basic Channel,
Jacob Miller,
Hasil Adkins,
Slave,
Echospace,
Peter & Gordon,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Camberwell Now,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jeff Lynne,
Duran Duran,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Erykah Badu,
Joe Smooth,
Curtis Mayfield,
Can,
Wire,
Funky Four + One,
Neu!,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe.
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.