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 El Salvador and from Lagos.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 clarinet 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 Peter & Gordon to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Rhythim Is Rhythim. All the underground hits.
All Angry Samoans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mark Hollis,
Eddi Front,
Qualms,
Pagans,
Deepchord,
DJ Style,
The Angels of Light,
Chrome,
Infiniti,
Japan,
Flipper,
Niagra,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sarah Menescal,
L. Decosne,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Hot Snakes,
Hoover,
Altered Images,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Cramps,
Rekid,
Hashim,
the Fania All-Stars,
Crime,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
New Age Steppers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Soul II Soul,
Mission of Burma,
Mary Jane Girls,
Aaron Thompson,
Angry Samoans,
Wally Richardson,
Technova,
Essential Logic,
The Tremeloes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
kango's stein massive,
Junior Murvin,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tim Buckley,
The Cowsills,
ABBA,
The Sonics,
Theoretical Girls,
Rakim,
Avey Tare,
The Litter,
The Mojo Men,
Joy Division,
Country Teasers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jeff Lynne,
The Pop Group,
The Zeros,
Whodini, Whodini, Whodini, Whodini.
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.