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 Djibouti and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terror Squad Feat. Camron 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 linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lalann,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Flipper,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Johnny Osbourne,
Robert Wyatt,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sugar Minott,
Avey Tare,
David Axelrod,
La Düsseldorf,
Bush Tetras,
Livin' Joy,
The Gories,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Soul Sonic Force,
Alison Limerick,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kerri Chandler,
Arcadia,
Piero Umiliani,
The Victims,
Parry Music,
Excepter,
The Fire Engines,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Altered Images,
AZ,
Fear,
John Holt,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eurythmics,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Vainqueur,
Brick,
ABC,
John Lydon,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Cowsills,
Fad Gadget,
Mars,
The Seeds,
Gabor Szabo,
Nas,
Matthew Bourne,
Subhumans,
Suicide,
Bill Near,
The Music Machine,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Amazonics,
Sam Rivers,
Infiniti,
Television,
The Detroit Cobras,
the Normal,
Dave Gahan,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.