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 Croatia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Joensuu 1685 to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Crash Course in Science. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Misunderstood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Divine Comedy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Selecter,
Ludus,
Essential Logic,
Joensuu 1685,
Kool Moe Dee,
Letta Mbulu,
Todd Rundgren,
Chrome,
Alton Ellis,
Chris & Cosey,
The Electric Prunes,
Tommy Roe,
Radio Birdman,
Camberwell Now,
Ohio Players,
Heaven 17,
Juan Atkins,
The Wake,
The Smiths,
The Black Dice,
Glambeats Corp.,
Los Fastidios,
The Victims,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Blackbyrds,
Moby Grape,
Duran Duran,
Urselle,
Talk Talk,
David Axelrod,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fluxion,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Eddi Front,
The Fall,
The Buckinghams,
cv313,
Mandrill,
Terry Callier,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Hardrive,
CMW,
Roger Hodgson,
Erasure,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Skaos,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Brick,
the Swans,
Excepter,
Nico,
The Golliwogs,
The Vogues,
Sister Nancy,
Piero Umiliani,
Lightning Bolt,
Barbara Tucker,
Harpers Bizarre,
Pantytec,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Liliput,
The Cramps, The Cramps, The Cramps, The Cramps.
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.