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 Honduras and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
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 The Leaves to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sister Nancy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Subhumans,
U.S. Maple,
Gabor Szabo,
Nils Olav,
Pylon,
Juan Atkins,
Janne Schatter,
Gong,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Minor Threat,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Aswad,
Hot Snakes,
Nas,
Bobby Sherman,
Average White Band,
Piero Umiliani,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Q and Not U,
Tres Demented,
The Human League,
Masters at Work,
Michelle Simonal,
Soft Machine,
Matthew Halsall,
Joyce Sims,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kenny Larkin,
Ronnie Foster,
Darondo,
Thompson Twins,
Kas Product,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Electric Prunes,
Carl Craig,
Wire,
Magma,
ABC,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Yazoo,
Altered Images,
Todd Terry,
The Angels of Light,
Steve Hackett,
KRS-One,
Godley & Creme,
Barrington Levy,
Skriet,
New Order,
Quando Quango,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Panda Bear,
the Swans,
The Mojo Men,
Freddie Wadling,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Rites of Spring,
Moebius,
Essential Logic,
Jacob Miller,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat.
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.