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 Angola and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Newcleus to the grunge 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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All Young Marble Giants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick May 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Television,
Negative Approach,
The Human League,
Unrelated Segments,
Soulsonic Force,
Lucky Dragons,
The Martian,
The Raincoats,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ultimate Spinach,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Trumans Water,
Young Marble Giants,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Mission of Burma,
Aswad,
Godley & Creme,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Moleskins,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Whodini,
Nas,
Drexciya,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Dead C,
Stiv Bators,
LL Cool J,
The Trojans,
Schoolly D,
Ralphi Rosario,
Q and Not U,
Man Parrish,
Ten City,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Gun Club,
Dave Gahan,
ABC,
Hot Snakes,
The Blues Magoos,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
June Days,
A Flock of Seagulls,
CMW,
Angry Samoans,
Sun City Girls,
Barbara Tucker,
Laurel Aitken,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Cowsills,
Audionom,
Minnie Riperton,
cv313,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
World's Most,
Erasure,
Sister Nancy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lindisfarne,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Soft Cell,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.