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 Palau and from Copenhagen.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Sound Behaviour to the crunk 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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pierre Henry,
Throbbing Gristle,
Cameo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Archie Shepp,
The Red Krayola,
the Sonics,
Joy Division,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fortunes,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Fall,
Anthony Braxton,
Blancmange,
Kas Product,
Erykah Badu,
Rod Modell,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Neu!,
Absolute Body Control,
Whodini,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Golliwogs,
Echospace,
Jacob Miller,
Warren Ellis,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Crooked Eye,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Dead C,
Brass Construction,
Idris Muhammad,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Scion,
Cluster,
D'Angelo,
Fela Kuti,
Sight & Sound,
Nas,
Depeche Mode,
Sound Behaviour,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bill Wells,
K-Klass,
Thompson Twins,
New Age Steppers,
The Cure,
Ultra Naté,
Alison Limerick,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sexual Harrassment,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bobby Womack,
Oneida,
The Pretty Things,
Y Pants,
Leonard Cohen,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Al Stewart,
The Happenings,
Janne Schatter,
The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines.
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.