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 Niger and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Madrid.
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 Nile Rodgers 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 UT to the grime 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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All The Kinks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smoke 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skaos,
Gichy Dan,
Ken Boothe,
Severed Heads,
Juan Atkins,
Sonic Youth,
Mark Hollis,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Arab on Radar,
Easy Going,
Rekid,
Delta 5,
Bizarre Inc.,
Blossom Toes,
The Beau Brummels,
Bronski Beat,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Schoolly D,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Oblivians,
LL Cool J,
The Moleskins,
Echospace,
The Mojo Men,
The Seeds,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Dave Gahan,
The Stooges,
Yellowson,
Reagan Youth,
Tomorrow,
Livin' Joy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
L. Decosne,
Talk Talk,
Roxy Music,
Jacob Miller,
Nik Kershaw,
Outsiders,
Howard Jones,
MC5,
Rosa Yemen,
Zapp,
Joyce Sims,
Kurtis Blow,
Joe Finger,
Hot Snakes,
Skarface,
Lou Christie,
Nico,
Henry Cow,
Rapeman,
Agitation Free,
Smog,
Patti Smith,
June of 44,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Neu!,
Anthony Braxton,
X-101,
Kool Moe Dee,
Cluster,
The Move,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
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.