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 Ghana and from London.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Dirtbombs to the disco 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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Spoonie Gee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
Bang On A Can,
Lalo Schifrin,
Organ,
Nas,
Neil Young,
The Fortunes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
D'Angelo,
Roxy Music,
Aswad,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Scott Walker,
The Birthday Party,
Thompson Twins,
The Trojans,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sound Behaviour,
Mission of Burma,
Bob Dylan,
Aaron Thompson,
Faraquet,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Fuzztones,
Sugar Minott,
Andrew Hill,
Fear,
Soulsonic Force,
Al Stewart,
Bronski Beat,
The Beau Brummels,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
New York Dolls,
The Pretty Things,
Excepter,
Chrome,
Ohio Players,
Unwound,
The Grass Roots,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Roxette,
The Modern Lovers,
E-Dancer,
Amazonics,
Rites of Spring,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
JFA,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Royal Trux,
Main Source,
Au Pairs,
The Leaves,
Funkadelic,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Eurythmics,
Hoover,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lucky Dragons,
Radio Birdman,
Mark Hollis,
Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson.
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.