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 New Zealand and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Grauzone to the punk 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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All Pagans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eli Mardock 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Iggy Pop,
Ituana,
The Cowsills,
DJ Sneak,
Anthony Braxton,
Subhumans,
Camberwell Now,
The Happenings,
X-Ray Spex,
Mark Hollis,
Bluetip,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Swell Maps,
Lindisfarne,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Von Mondo,
Gang Starr,
Scan 7,
The Busters,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Matthew Halsall,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Los Fastidios,
the Swans,
Symarip,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Michelle Simonal,
Throbbing Gristle,
Fluxion,
Babytalk,
The Walker Brothers,
Crispy Ambulance,
Slave,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jeff Lynne,
Dead Boys,
Sonic Youth,
June Days,
Hoover,
This Heat,
The Associates,
Aaron Thompson,
Hot Snakes,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Kevin Saunderson,
Animal Collective,
Bizarre Inc.,
Grauzone,
Electric Prunes,
Pole,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Can,
Absolute Body Control,
Schoolly D,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bill Wells,
Jerry's Kids,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.