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 Belarus and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Alison Limerick to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Crispy Ambulance,
Supertramp,
Kayak,
The Neon Judgement,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Oneida,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Gories,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lalann,
The Kinks,
Derrick Morgan,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Gun Club,
The Five Americans,
Saccharine Trust,
Mr. Review,
Black Flag,
John Foxx,
Depeche Mode,
The Associates,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Blackbyrds,
Darondo,
Camouflage,
Pulsallama,
D'Angelo,
Nils Olav,
Panda Bear,
The Vogues,
Sister Nancy,
Royal Trux,
Lightning Bolt,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Anakelly,
Con Funk Shun,
The Cowsills,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Little Man,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pere Ubu,
Maurizio,
Dave Gahan,
Ornette Coleman,
The Saints,
June Days,
Colin Newman,
a-ha,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Roger Hodgson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Scion,
Adolescents,
Radiohead,
Robert Wyatt,
Soul II Soul,
Can,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.