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 Azerbaijan and from Toronto.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Echo & the Bunnymen to the electroclash 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 Radio Birdman. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Fania All-Stars 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Victims,
The Durutti Column,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
AZ,
Charles Mingus,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Alton Ellis,
Pylon,
Bang On A Can,
Peter and Kerry,
Wasted Youth,
the Association,
Q and Not U,
The Monochrome Set,
Qualms,
OOIOO,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Moby Grape,
Bobby Sherman,
Inner City,
Rhythm & Sound,
Tropical Tobacco,
X-101,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Trumans Water,
Jeff Lynne,
Rufus Thomas,
Agitation Free,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Laurel Aitken,
The Dave Clark Five,
Eric B and Rakim,
Freddie Wadling,
Don Cherry,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Peter & Gordon,
The Moleskins,
Aural Exciters,
The Smiths,
The Invisible,
Johnny Clarke,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Derrick Morgan,
Average White Band,
DNA,
Von Mondo,
China Crisis,
Maurizio,
Marmalade,
Marine Girls,
The Tremeloes,
Barbara Tucker,
Bootsy Collins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deadbeat,
Wings,
Talk Talk,
Stereo Dub,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Busters,
Hashim, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim.
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.