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 Jordan and from Beijing.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the oboe 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 Agitation Free to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Joe & The Fish 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New York Dolls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cecil Taylor,
Boogie Down Productions,
Radiopuhelimet,
the Association,
Donny Hathaway,
Faraquet,
Sound Behaviour,
Essential Logic,
The Pretty Things,
Lakeside,
Scratch Acid,
Black Moon,
Erasure,
Sun Ra,
Matthew Halsall,
Toni Rubio,
Byron Stingily,
Liliput,
Severed Heads,
New York Dolls,
These Immortal Souls,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Wake,
Judy Mowatt,
Underground Resistance,
The Slackers,
Blancmange,
Buzzcocks,
The Standells,
The Monochrome Set,
Fugazi,
Janne Schatter,
Terry Callier,
The Grass Roots,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
FM Einheit,
Ludus,
Thee Headcoats,
Soulsonic Force,
Organ,
Amazonics,
Au Pairs,
John Foxx,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Japan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ossler,
Pylon,
Jacob Miller,
Davy DMX,
Mandrill,
Laurel Aitken,
U.S. Maple,
the Normal,
Kurtis Blow,
Eric B and Rakim,
Warsaw,
Yaz,
Eddi Front,
The Seeds,
Arthur Verocai,
Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler.
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.