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 Guinea and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the rock 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
The Smiths,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Selecter,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Goldenarms,
Young Marble Giants,
Excepter,
Accadde A,
Rufus Thomas,
Pet Shop Boys,
Prince Buster,
Glambeats Corp.,
Inner City,
Roxette,
The Skatalites,
Max Romeo,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Agent Orange,
The Cramps,
Erasure,
The Shadows of Knight,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Colin Newman,
The Dave Clark Five,
the Soft Cell,
Yaz,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Slits,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
kango's stein massive,
Negative Approach,
Monks,
Lower 48,
Q65,
Ralphi Rosario,
Altered Images,
Gang Starr,
The Happenings,
Minutemen,
Japan,
Clear Light,
Idris Muhammad,
Sight & Sound,
Guru Guru,
Stetsasonic,
The Wake,
Wolf Eyes,
Funky Four + One,
Quadrant,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Rotary Connection,
The Barracudas,
Symarip,
X-102,
The Saints,
Dead Boys,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.