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 Cuba and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Gichy Dan to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Neon Judgement. All the underground hits.
All The Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Roger Hodgson,
The Moleskins,
Idris Muhammad,
China Crisis,
Harpers Bizarre,
Suicide,
Peter and Kerry,
Bad Manners,
Make Up,
The Detroit Cobras,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Fortunes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Jawbox,
Bronski Beat,
Gichy Dan,
Boredoms,
Tom Boy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Saints,
Johnny Clarke,
A Certain Ratio,
The Standells,
Scott Walker,
Altered Images,
Piero Umiliani,
Erasure,
LL Cool J,
The Blues Magoos,
New York Dolls,
The Misunderstood,
Crime,
the Sonics,
Average White Band,
The Leaves,
The Evens,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Excepter,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Visage,
Sun City Girls,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
E-Dancer,
Avey Tare,
ABC,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sixth Finger,
Bobby Sherman,
Radiohead,
Joy Division,
Goldenarms,
Black Bananas,
Sparks,
Television Personalities,
The Motions,
Peter & Gordon,
Maleditus Sound,
Icehouse,
L. Decosne,
The Moody Blues,
The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.
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.