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 Italy and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Can to the punk 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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All Simply Red tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cameo,
Groovy Waters,
Chris & Cosey,
Robert Görl,
The Gories,
The Tremeloes,
China Crisis,
Procol Harum,
The Slackers,
Darondo,
Absolute Body Control,
Metal Thangz,
Junior Murvin,
The Zeros,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Radiohead,
Public Enemy,
Minutemen,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Skaos,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Funky Four + One,
Don Cherry,
Smog,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Saccharine Trust,
Rosa Yemen,
Masters at Work,
Iggy Pop,
Neil Young,
Peter and Kerry,
Cheater Slicks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Joe Smooth,
the Association,
Reagan Youth,
Black Bananas,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Wake,
Matthew Halsall,
Pagans,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Yellowson,
The Fugs,
Alphaville,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bob Dylan,
Tres Demented,
Stiv Bators,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Danielle Patucci,
Aaron Thompson,
Depeche Mode,
Max Romeo,
Roger Hodgson,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Yazoo,
The Blackbyrds,
Underground Resistance,
DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace.
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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.