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 Sweden and from Paris.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Milan.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the funk 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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ralphi Rosario,
Flipper,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
John Lydon,
Aural Exciters,
Brass Construction,
Byron Stingily,
Ossler,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
10cc,
Basic Channel,
Lightning Bolt,
Shoche,
Dark Day,
X-102,
FM Einheit,
Stockholm Monsters,
Mary Jane Girls,
Heaven 17,
PIL,
Main Source,
Peter and Kerry,
Kool Moe Dee,
Mission of Burma,
Guru Guru,
Amon Düül II,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gang Starr,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Trojans,
Stetsasonic,
Public Enemy,
Aswad,
Bad Manners,
Delta 5,
Bluetip,
Sarah Menescal,
Absolute Body Control,
CMW,
John Coltrane,
Idris Muhammad,
Lee Hazlewood,
Amazonics,
Eric Dolphy,
Pantytec,
Excepter,
the Normal,
Isaac Hayes,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Khruangbin,
Pantaleimon,
Gong,
Terry Callier,
Bizarre Inc.,
In Retrospect,
Negative Approach,
Wings,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Eddi Front,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.