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 Moldova and from Bremen.
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 Shanghai and Winnipeg.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Robert Görl to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All The Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minny Pops record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Toni Rubio,
Arcadia,
Section 25,
The Remains,
Theoretical Girls,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Star Department,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Oblivians,
Nirvana,
Roger Hodgson,
The Knickerbockers,
Suburban Knight,
Half Japanese,
Matthew Halsall,
The Gap Band,
Sam Rivers,
Moss Icon,
Rekid,
Tom Boy,
The Last Poets,
Harpers Bizarre,
Niagra,
Lucky Dragons,
Cecil Taylor,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lebanon Hanover,
Faust,
Reuben Wilson,
Vainqueur,
Little Man,
Das Ding,
Vladislav Delay,
Alton Ellis,
Main Source,
The Selecter,
New York Dolls,
The Sound,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Boredoms,
Amon Düül,
CMW,
Basic Channel,
Roxette,
New Order,
X-102,
Robert Hood,
F. McDonald,
Kenny Larkin,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Public Enemy,
Pere Ubu,
John Cale,
Radiohead,
Bad Manners,
The Wake,
Roxy Music,
Echospace,
Icehouse,
Be Bop Deluxe,
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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.