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 Kosovo and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Gang Green to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All The Flesh Eaters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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?
Vainqueur,
The Gun Club,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Oneida,
Rekid,
Skaos,
Althea and Donna,
Swell Maps,
JFA,
Gang Green,
Hot Snakes,
Mandrill,
The Evens,
X-Ray Spex,
Electric Prunes,
Jesper Dahlback,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Aural Exciters,
Rapeman,
Peter and Kerry,
The Pop Group,
Agent Orange,
Interpol,
The Five Americans,
Amazonics,
Pet Shop Boys,
Magazine,
Derrick May,
Average White Band,
Simply Red,
Vladislav Delay,
Nils Olav,
Yellowson,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Monks,
Das Ding,
Accadde A,
Animal Collective,
Cluster,
China Crisis,
Soulsonic Force,
Sonic Youth,
Roxette,
Fad Gadget,
DJ Style,
Marc Almond,
Aswad,
Los Fastidios,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Fall,
Chris Corsano,
Masters at Work,
Anakelly,
Ultra Naté,
Delta 5,
Skarface,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
X-102,
Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic.
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.