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 Mali and from Bremen.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Ituana to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Curtis Mayfield,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Mandrill,
E-Dancer,
The Gories,
Godley & Creme,
Sexual Harrassment,
The New Christs,
Dorothy Ashby,
Joe Finger,
Kayak,
The Slits,
Kaleidoscope,
Sarah Menescal,
Donald Byrd,
ABBA,
The Associates,
Dennis Brown,
Chris Corsano,
Moss Icon,
Tom Boy,
Nick Fraelich,
Silicon Teens,
Mission of Burma,
Agent Orange,
Roxette,
John Foxx,
Lakeside,
The Cowsills,
48th St. Collective,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gil Scott Heron,
Boogie Down Productions,
David Axelrod,
Ludus,
Lou Reed,
The Sound,
Dead Boys,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lower 48,
Barry Ungar,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Happenings,
Audionom,
The Kinks,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Dark Day,
Cal Tjader,
The Standells,
Erykah Badu,
Leonard Cohen,
Grey Daturas,
Gerry Rafferty,
Robert Wyatt,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Warren Ellis,
Mantronix,
Bill Near,
Bill Wells,
Alison Limerick,
The Litter,
Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music.
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.