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 Croatia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Magma 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 The Names. All the underground hits.
All Gang Gang Dance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Knickerbockers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Divine Comedy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mark Hollis,
Soft Cell,
Electric Prunes,
Hot Snakes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Roy Ayers,
The Golliwogs,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Tremeloes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Nico,
Pet Shop Boys,
Yazoo,
David Axelrod,
Negative Approach,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lou Reed,
Dawn Penn,
Animal Collective,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Star Department,
Pantaleimon,
The Black Dice,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Marc Almond,
Metal Thangz,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ice-T,
Al Stewart,
Radiohead,
Bobby Byrd,
Suburban Knight,
Tim Buckley,
Erasure,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Leaves,
FM Einheit,
The Kinks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Moleskins,
Jacques Brel,
The Angels of Light,
The Gun Club,
CMW,
Soulsonic Force,
B.T. Express,
Grauzone,
Scrapy,
Minutemen,
Deakin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rekid,
Brick,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Scientists,
Freddie Wadling,
Swans,
The Walker Brothers,
Barclay James Harvest,
Television,
Ralphi Rosario,
Crime,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.