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 Ethiopia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Matthew Halsall to the grunge 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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All The Neon Judgement tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra Arkestra 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Moby Grape,
Sonic Youth,
Grandmaster Flash,
Cybotron,
Wasted Youth,
The Cure,
Man Parrish,
Anthony Braxton,
Dark Day,
Terrestrial Tones,
the Association,
Gichy Dan,
Minor Threat,
David Axelrod,
Amazonics,
Warren Ellis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Toasters,
Massinfluence,
Swell Maps,
Theoretical Girls,
Visage,
Kool Moe Dee,
Marcia Griffiths,
Arab on Radar,
Spandau Ballet,
Curtis Mayfield,
Motorama,
It's A Beautiful Day,
a-ha,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Human League,
Max Romeo,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Aaron Thompson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Boz Scaggs,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Zeros,
Graham Central Station,
Organ,
Glenn Branca,
Joe Finger,
A Flock of Seagulls,
John Foxx,
MDC,
T.S.O.L.,
The Residents,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sonny Sharrock,
E-Dancer,
Radiopuhelimet,
Maurizio,
The Index,
Schoolly D,
Skaos,
Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade.
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.