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 Sri Lanka and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Tehran.
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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Young Marble Giants to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Theoretical Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
Brothers Johnson,
The Residents,
Quadrant,
Janne Schatter,
Kurtis Blow,
Kaleidoscope,
Susan Cadogan,
Rapeman,
Electric Prunes,
The Litter,
DJ Style,
The Neon Judgement,
Television,
Terry Callier,
Youth Brigade,
Monolake,
Mr. Review,
Ornette Coleman,
Accadde A,
Country Teasers,
JFA,
Alphaville,
The Velvet Underground,
Wally Richardson,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eric Copeland,
Blossom Toes,
Anakelly,
Circle Jerks,
Connie Case,
Ten City,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Cameo,
Sound Behaviour,
Little Man,
Ronan,
Panda Bear,
Can,
New Order,
Grauzone,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Tremeloes,
Brass Construction,
The Fugs,
The Modern Lovers,
the Germs,
Piero Umiliani,
The Pretty Things,
Ultra Naté,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Golliwogs,
Skarface,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
These Immortal Souls,
Bill Near,
Nirvana,
Terrestrial Tones,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jimmy McGriff,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.