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 Estonia and from Mumbai.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Dennis Brown to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Junior Murvin. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wasted Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nik Kershaw,
Sonic Youth,
Dave Gahan,
Echospace,
Lalann,
the Swans,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Clear Light,
Erasure,
Kayak,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Michelle Simonal,
Andrew Hill,
These Immortal Souls,
Siglo XX,
Wally Richardson,
Blancmange,
Ohio Players,
Girls At Our Best!,
Donny Hathaway,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Offenders,
Camberwell Now,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lungfish,
Moebius,
The Evens,
Matthew Halsall,
Model 500,
Sonny Sharrock,
AZ,
cv313,
Harmonia,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Jawbox,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Japan,
Stiv Bators,
Anakelly,
The Star Department,
The Alarm Clocks,
Steve Hackett,
Monolake,
Niagra,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Slick Rick,
Idris Muhammad,
Lou Christie,
Lower 48,
OOIOO,
Scrapy,
The Last Poets,
Jandek,
Ice-T,
Sandy B,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rites of Spring,
Dead Boys,
PIL,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.