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 Finland and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Manchester.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Lou Christie 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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All Popol Vuh tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blues Magoos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warren Ellis,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Crooked Eye,
Rekid,
Skriet,
David Axelrod,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
PIL,
Roger Hodgson,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Mantronix,
Trumans Water,
Terrestrial Tones,
K-Klass,
The Pretty Things,
EPMD,
Lou Christie,
Technova,
Metal Thangz,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
World's Most,
B.T. Express,
The Cure,
Scientists,
Funky Four + One,
Prince Buster,
Donny Hathaway,
Altered Images,
Steve Hackett,
Radiohead,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dawn Penn,
Lucky Dragons,
The Motions,
The Smiths,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sparks,
Derrick Morgan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yusef Lateef,
Pagans,
Lower 48,
In Retrospect,
The Blues Magoos,
Ronnie Foster,
The Velvet Underground,
David Bowie,
The Mojo Men,
Bill Wells,
U.S. Maple,
Babytalk,
Camouflage,
Lyres,
Minor Threat,
Franke,
The Gories,
Flash Fearless,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Easy Going,
Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood.
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.