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 Yemen and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Hot Snakes to the techno 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 Radio Birdman. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Junior Murvin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
Sonic Youth,
Television Personalities,
EPMD,
Steve Hackett,
Sex Pistols,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Suicide,
One Last Wish,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Easy Going,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Nico,
Pole,
ABC,
David McCallum,
The Black Dice,
The Tremeloes,
Derrick May,
Radiopuhelimet,
Goldenarms,
Andrew Hill,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Agent Orange,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Beau Brummels,
Connie Case,
Q65,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Robert Wyatt,
Danielle Patucci,
Spoonie Gee,
These Immortal Souls,
PIL,
Moss Icon,
The Modern Lovers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sight & Sound,
Don Cherry,
Agitation Free,
kango's stein massive,
Pulsallama,
Mark Hollis,
Barclay James Harvest,
New Order,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kayak,
Derrick Morgan,
The Barracudas,
Banda Bassotti,
The Names,
Essential Logic,
Al Stewart,
David Bowie,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sixth Finger,
Funkadelic,
the Bar-Kays,
Y Pants,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.