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 Solomon Islands and from Copenhagen.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 808 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All Simply Red tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Richard Hell and the Voidoids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Drive Like Jehu,
Mars,
Kenny Larkin,
Harmonia,
The Searchers,
Television,
Robert Hood,
Mandrill,
Grauzone,
Glenn Branca,
The Names,
Cecil Taylor,
Ultimate Spinach,
Cheater Slicks,
Lower 48,
the Human League,
Sarah Menescal,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Junior Murvin,
Rhythm & Sound,
Quadrant,
Donald Byrd,
The Tremeloes,
Don Cherry,
Magma,
F. McDonald,
Intrusion,
The Seeds,
Japan,
Pulsallama,
The Busters,
The Blues Magoos,
Ralphi Rosario,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Tres Demented,
Franke,
Quando Quango,
The Monochrome Set,
Mantronix,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Inner City,
Freddie Wadling,
Massinfluence,
Cameo,
Brick,
Scratch Acid,
Ultravox,
David Axelrod,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Kinks,
Blossom Toes,
The Cramps,
Hardrive,
The Star Department,
Joe Finger,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.