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 Antigua and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Taipei.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Lyres to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Certain Ratio 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Velvet Underground,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Janne Schatter,
Maleditus Sound,
Amon Düül II,
Flipper,
Public Enemy,
Kayak,
Don Cherry,
Sex Pistols,
Massinfluence,
The Mojo Men,
Ultra Naté,
Nirvana,
Mission of Burma,
This Heat,
Talk Talk,
The Sound,
kango's stein massive,
Fatback Band,
The Seeds,
Ponytail,
Trumans Water,
The Mummies,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
June of 44,
cv313,
Bobby Byrd,
Royal Trux,
Leonard Cohen,
UT,
Skaos,
Panda Bear,
Theoretical Girls,
The Buckinghams,
Intrusion,
Deakin,
Scrapy,
Amazonics,
The Trojans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Sonics,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sight & Sound,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Connie Case,
Infiniti,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Make Up,
The Fire Engines,
The Slackers,
Half Japanese,
A Certain Ratio,
Agitation Free,
Marc Almond,
Cluster, Cluster, Cluster, Cluster.
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.