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 Sri Lanka and from Glasgow.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 organ 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 Josef K to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ken Boothe,
This Heat,
the Association,
Yazoo,
E-Dancer,
D'Angelo,
The Motions,
Bluetip,
The Birthday Party,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sandy B,
Leonard Cohen,
Sly & The Family Stone,
MDC,
Eric Copeland,
Stereo Dub,
Joensuu 1685,
Althea and Donna,
Flamin' Groovies,
Soul Sonic Force,
Soft Machine,
Gastr Del Sol,
Y Pants,
Massinfluence,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Marvin Gaye,
Dead Boys,
The Slackers,
Sight & Sound,
Cal Tjader,
Japan,
The Selecter,
Jimmy McGriff,
Smog,
Spandau Ballet,
Donald Byrd,
X-102,
Rod Modell,
Deadbeat,
Stockholm Monsters,
OOIOO,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Boredoms,
Das Ding,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Saccharine Trust,
Rapeman,
Alphaville,
Terry Callier,
Magazine,
Harmonia,
Dawn Penn,
Grauzone,
The Young Rascals,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Cameo,
Average White Band,
Arthur Verocai,
Kerrie Biddell,
Qualms,
The Happenings,
Fear,
Stetsasonic,
The Cowsills,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.