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 Peru and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Seeds to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Ice-T. All the underground hits.
All Be Bop Deluxe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Section 25 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Henry Cow,
FM Einheit,
Skaos,
Suicide,
Depeche Mode,
Skarface,
Tres Demented,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Count Five,
Rotary Connection,
Can,
Gerry Rafferty,
Rod Modell,
Moby Grape,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Zero Boys,
Niagra,
The Electric Prunes,
Pierre Henry,
Jeff Lynne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barry Ungar,
Lindisfarne,
Avey Tare,
Ice-T,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sound Behaviour,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Fatback Band,
Moss Icon,
The Cure,
Kas Product,
Reagan Youth,
Sonic Youth,
Essential Logic,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Selecter,
Don Cherry,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Motions,
Brand Nubian,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pussy Galore,
Yellowson,
John Foxx,
Michelle Simonal,
The Grass Roots,
Shoche,
K-Klass,
48th St. Collective,
Deakin,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Symarip,
the Swans,
Jandek,
The Misunderstood,
E-Dancer,
X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex.
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.