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 Hungary and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 theremin 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 The Angels of Light to the techno 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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Angels of Light,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Porter Ricks,
Marc Almond,
Jawbox,
Index,
The Golliwogs,
The Velvet Underground,
Stiv Bators,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bronski Beat,
Smog,
Infiniti,
Ponytail,
Scratch Acid,
Marcia Griffiths,
One Last Wish,
Aswad,
Q65,
X-102,
DNA,
8 Eyed Spy,
Interpol,
Yellowson,
Crooked Eye,
The Neon Judgement,
Kayak,
Sarah Menescal,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
a-ha,
Mars,
Das Ding,
Albert Ayler,
Camouflage,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Walker Brothers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Blake Baxter,
Erykah Badu,
Bad Manners,
Bob Dylan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Supertramp,
Flipper,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Cowsills,
Jacob Miller,
The Standells,
Ludus,
Second Layer,
Reuben Wilson,
The Cure,
Sällskapet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sparks,
The Busters,
Soul II Soul,
Sound Behaviour,
Pantytec,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.