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 United States and from Taipei.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the oboe 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 Alton Ellis to the electroclash 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 The Flesh Eaters. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sexual Harrassment record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erasure,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Joyce Sims,
Camberwell Now,
The Happenings,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Fad Gadget,
Bauhaus,
Au Pairs,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Durutti Column,
Harpers Bizarre,
Eric Dolphy,
Symarip,
The Black Dice,
CMW,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Arcadia,
Susan Cadogan,
Los Fastidios,
Bootsy Collins,
Livin' Joy,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rod Modell,
The Shadows of Knight,
Rites of Spring,
DNA,
Rotary Connection,
Ken Boothe,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Motorama,
Beasts of Bourbon,
cv313,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Amon Düül,
Skaos,
Isaac Hayes,
Kool Moe Dee,
Nils Olav,
The Associates,
the Normal,
Tommy Roe,
Underground Resistance,
Camouflage,
Fatback Band,
the Swans,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Black Sheep,
Negative Approach,
Delta 5,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
the Sonics,
The Doors,
Steve Hackett,
Trumans Water,
Unrelated Segments,
Eli Mardock,
Easy Going,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Fall, The Fall, The Fall, The Fall.
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.