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 Romania and from Columbus.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Heaven 17 to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lonnie Liston Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Banda Bassotti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiopuhelimet,
Los Fastidios,
The Victims,
Rosa Yemen,
The Motions,
F. McDonald,
Electric Prunes,
The Shadows of Knight,
Gerry Rafferty,
Funky Four + One,
Terrestrial Tones,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Fugazi,
Freddie Wadling,
The Neon Judgement,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Star Department,
Magma,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Godley & Creme,
Dawn Penn,
Silicon Teens,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
JFA,
Al Stewart,
Motorama,
Byron Stingily,
the Human League,
The Blues Magoos,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Andrew Hill,
DJ Style,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Agent Orange,
Lungfish,
David Axelrod,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Skaos,
Boredoms,
Jeff Lynne,
Bronski Beat,
Country Teasers,
Suicide,
Brothers Johnson,
The Residents,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Arab on Radar,
Idris Muhammad,
Nas,
Jimmy McGriff,
Black Sheep,
LL Cool J,
Hashim,
Scrapy,
The Fuzztones,
The J.B.'s,
This Heat, This Heat, This Heat, This Heat.
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.