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 El Salvador and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Jawbox to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Y Pants. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magma record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bronski Beat,
Royal Trux,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alison Limerick,
Matthew Bourne,
Ken Boothe,
Stockholm Monsters,
Carl Craig,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Little Man,
Flash Fearless,
These Immortal Souls,
The Seeds,
The Gladiators,
Crash Course in Science,
Oneida,
MC5,
Agitation Free,
Brothers Johnson,
Eve St. Jones,
Grauzone,
Niagra,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sällskapet,
Ultimate Spinach,
Toni Rubio,
The Cowsills,
The Real Kids,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Godley & Creme,
Nick Fraelich,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Dave Clark Five,
Amon Düül II,
R.M.O.,
Eurythmics,
Nik Kershaw,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Zeros,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Happenings,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jimmy McGriff,
Eli Mardock,
Interpol,
Negative Approach,
Fat Boys,
Delta 5,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ornette Coleman,
Terry Callier,
Lungfish,
Marcia Griffiths,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bobby Womack,
Livin' Joy,
Rufus Thomas,
Sam Rivers,
The Motions,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.