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 Serbia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Technova to the jazz 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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quadrant record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Interpol,
Robert Görl,
Ituana,
Vainqueur,
X-Ray Spex,
Roger Hodgson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Archie Shepp,
The Mummies,
The Blues Magoos,
Pulsallama,
Ronnie Foster,
Black Flag,
Flamin' Groovies,
Anthony Braxton,
The Skatalites,
Subhumans,
The Golliwogs,
Duran Duran,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Deepchord,
Talk Talk,
Mission of Burma,
Delta 5,
This Heat,
Symarip,
Altered Images,
Joy Division,
Kerrie Biddell,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Moleskins,
Mr. Review,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hasil Adkins,
Lindisfarne,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Harpers Bizarre,
Freddie Wadling,
The Mojo Men,
The Martian,
Bill Near,
Jeff Lynne,
Trumans Water,
Kenny Larkin,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Invisible,
Roy Ayers,
Funky Four + One,
Sonny Sharrock,
Second Layer,
Make Up,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Morten Harket,
Royal Trux,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Johnny Clarke,
Marvin Gaye,
Ronan,
The Standells,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.