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 Denmark and from Philadelphia.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Radiohead to the electroclash 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 The Golliwogs. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Saints record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
Colin Newman,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Fire Engines,
Los Fastidios,
Index,
Pantaleimon,
Minnie Riperton,
Deepchord,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Knickerbockers,
Siglo XX,
Wire,
Liliput,
Sällskapet,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Swans,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ice-T,
Eli Mardock,
Japan,
Mars,
the Normal,
The Electric Prunes,
DJ Sneak,
Derrick Morgan,
Spoonie Gee,
Ultra Naté,
Avey Tare,
Franke,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
10cc,
Black Moon,
The Buckinghams,
KRS-One,
Kas Product,
The Durutti Column,
Accadde A,
The Moody Blues,
Porter Ricks,
Henry Cow,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Wake,
Nick Fraelich,
Vladislav Delay,
Animal Collective,
Mark Hollis,
Stiv Bators,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Doors,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Matthew Halsall,
Absolute Body Control,
Inner City,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ronnie Foster,
Sarah Menescal,
The Busters, The Busters, The Busters, The Busters.
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.