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 Cyprus and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Massinfluence to the rock 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 Oppenheimer Analysis. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kenny Larkin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
Depeche Mode,
Brand Nubian,
The Happenings,
Matthew Bourne,
JFA,
Fatback Band,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ituana,
The Count Five,
Amon Düül,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Rosa Yemen,
Jandek,
Johnny Clarke,
Leonard Cohen,
Boredoms,
Ronnie Foster,
Juan Atkins,
Dennis Brown,
L. Decosne,
The Evens,
Alphaville,
Neil Young,
The Grass Roots,
Y Pants,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Wake,
Danielle Patucci,
Massinfluence,
Television Personalities,
The Mummies,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Piero Umiliani,
Crime,
Dawn Penn,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Duran Duran,
Icehouse,
The Index,
The Five Americans,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Wally Richardson,
Bauhaus,
Essential Logic,
Amon Düül II,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Doobie Brothers,
Black Sheep,
Darondo,
Popol Vuh,
The Invisible,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Hardrive,
X-101,
Gang Starr,
Man Parrish,
MDC,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat.
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.