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 Azerbaijan and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 sitar 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 Bronski Beat to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eddi Front record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lee Hazlewood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Warren Ellis,
Eurythmics,
Ossler,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Minnie Riperton,
The Leaves,
Roxy Music,
The Sonics,
Infiniti,
Maleditus Sound,
The Velvet Underground,
Quando Quango,
Talk Talk,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sällskapet,
Toni Rubio,
H. Thieme,
Lee Hazlewood,
Dawn Penn,
Nik Kershaw,
Gichy Dan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dave Gahan,
Jerry's Kids,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lakeside,
Cybotron,
Mo-Dettes,
Royal Trux,
Neil Young,
The Last Poets,
The Residents,
Bobby Sherman,
The Tremeloes,
Aural Exciters,
cv313,
Prince Buster,
Rites of Spring,
Fela Kuti,
Don Cherry,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
PIL,
Stetsasonic,
The Move,
The Dead C,
The Saints,
The Young Rascals,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Essential Logic,
Magazine,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Big Daddy Kane,
Loose Ends,
Bluetip,
Mars,
Peter and Kerry,
Desert Stars,
Icehouse,
Eve St. Jones,
Skaos, Skaos, Skaos, Skaos.
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.