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 Malta and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ 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 The Smiths to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All Cheater Slicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Index,
Matthew Halsall,
Technova,
Chris Corsano,
Make Up,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Royal Trux,
Ultimate Spinach,
Desert Stars,
The Gories,
Ken Boothe,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Scientists,
AZ,
Khruangbin,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Velvet Underground,
Black Bananas,
ABBA,
Symarip,
The Cure,
Fad Gadget,
Nik Kershaw,
Loose Ends,
Marmalade,
The Misunderstood,
The Sonics,
Gastr Del Sol,
Peter and Kerry,
Althea and Donna,
The Human League,
Faust,
the Bar-Kays,
EPMD,
Surgeon,
Cymande,
Deadbeat,
Henry Cow,
Tropical Tobacco,
Dawn Penn,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lucky Dragons,
The Raincoats,
Avey Tare,
Duran Duran,
Robert Görl,
The Shadows of Knight,
Joey Negro,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sexual Harrassment,
Leonard Cohen,
The Birthday Party,
The Angels of Light,
Moss Icon,
Supertramp,
Aaron Thompson,
Cal Tjader,
Graham Central Station,
Lou Christie,
The Happenings,
The Pretty Things,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.