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 Taiwan and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Inner City 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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Shadows of Knight 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gichy Dan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Talk Talk,
Boz Scaggs,
Dark Day,
The Busters,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Buckinghams,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Icehouse,
Whodini,
Lightning Bolt,
Bill Near,
Quando Quango,
Kerrie Biddell,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Idris Muhammad,
The Fugs,
T.S.O.L.,
Junior Murvin,
Pharoah Sanders,
Country Teasers,
Steve Hackett,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Mars,
Matthew Halsall,
Masters at Work,
Scrapy,
New Age Steppers,
Radiohead,
Magma,
the Bar-Kays,
The Litter,
China Crisis,
Robert Wyatt,
Stetsasonic,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
F. McDonald,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mantronix,
Negative Approach,
Boogie Down Productions,
PIL,
Hot Snakes,
the Swans,
OOIOO,
The Gories,
Soul Sonic Force,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Monks,
Colin Newman,
The Saints,
The Angels of Light,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Barbara Tucker,
Frankie Knuckles,
Soul II Soul,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Misunderstood,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.