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 Guinea and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 synthesizer 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 E-Dancer to the funk 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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a LL Cool J record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Crime,
The Human League,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Knickerbockers,
Minor Threat,
Terry Callier,
Chrome,
The Birthday Party,
Cameo,
Sun City Girls,
The Neon Judgement,
The Cramps,
The Dead C,
Godley & Creme,
The Names,
Index,
Nation of Ulysses,
Mission of Burma,
Brass Construction,
Jandek,
Procol Harum,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Blues Magoos,
Parry Music,
Josef K,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bronski Beat,
Bobby Womack,
Aswad,
The Durutti Column,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Wake,
Sixth Finger,
Jacob Miller,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jimmy McGriff,
The Gories,
Lalann,
Masters at Work,
Joensuu 1685,
Ossler,
H. Thieme,
Lou Reed,
CMW,
Al Stewart,
The Invisible,
Dual Sessions,
Dead Boys,
K-Klass,
Ornette Coleman,
In Retrospect,
the Normal,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Colin Newman,
The Happenings,
Smog,
The Smiths,
Dark Day,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.