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 South Sudan and from Mexico City.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Cairo.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Joe Finger to the grime 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 Vladislav Delay. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scrapy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Dead Boys,
Groovy Waters,
Derrick May,
Organ,
Freddie Wadling,
Bobby Womack,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
LL Cool J,
Half Japanese,
Lebanon Hanover,
Circle Jerks,
OOIOO,
Bronski Beat,
Parry Music,
The Zeros,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Metal Thangz,
The Busters,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Soul II Soul,
Bootsy Collins,
Traffic Nightmare,
Prince Buster,
Gang Starr,
Swans,
the Germs,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Pretty Things,
The Invisible,
Schoolly D,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Human League,
Toni Rubio,
The Fuzztones,
Blake Baxter,
The Moody Blues,
The Golliwogs,
The Star Department,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Derrick Morgan,
Sam Rivers,
Adolescents,
Dennis Brown,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Move,
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Gang Green,
Section 25,
Aswad,
the Soft Cell,
Pharoah Sanders,
Alice Coltrane,
The Count Five,
Royal Trux,
Ronnie Foster,
Gabor Szabo,
Matthew Halsall,
Urselle, Urselle, Urselle, Urselle.
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.