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 Indonesia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 theremin 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 Bizarre Inc. to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rites of Spring record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marc Almond,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
China Crisis,
Q and Not U,
The Misunderstood,
Rod Modell,
Nas,
H. Thieme,
The Mighty Diamonds,
F. McDonald,
Agitation Free,
Hashim,
Country Teasers,
Scientists,
Mark Hollis,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Michelle Simonal,
The Litter,
Wally Richardson,
Unwound,
Anakelly,
Carl Craig,
Piero Umiliani,
The Monochrome Set,
DJ Style,
the Slits,
Eddi Front,
Donald Byrd,
Gabor Szabo,
The Moleskins,
Aural Exciters,
Flash Fearless,
Essential Logic,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Move,
Slick Rick,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Danielle Patucci,
Sun City Girls,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Toni Rubio,
Pantytec,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kerri Chandler,
Livin' Joy,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Amazonics,
Boz Scaggs,
Shuggie Otis,
Archie Shepp,
The Offenders,
The Residents,
Albert Ayler,
KRS-One,
Severed Heads,
Roxette,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Henry Cow,
Wings,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.