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 Dominican Republic and from Manchester.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Searchers to the electroclash 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 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
Gerry Rafferty,
Josef K,
Circle Jerks,
New Order,
D'Angelo,
Simply Red,
Youth Brigade,
Susan Cadogan,
The Mighty Diamonds,
the Swans,
Yellowson,
Piero Umiliani,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Marmalade,
Eddi Front,
Lyres,
Hashim,
Main Source,
Porter Ricks,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Fire Engines,
H. Thieme,
Scott Walker,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
In Retrospect,
The New Christs,
Davy DMX,
Rakim,
Sarah Menescal,
Kerri Chandler,
Kayak,
Laurel Aitken,
Hasil Adkins,
Con Funk Shun,
The Vogues,
The Birthday Party,
Vainqueur,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pylon,
Darondo,
Animal Collective,
Pierre Henry,
Harry Pussy,
Gong,
Warsaw,
Mad Mike,
Average White Band,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Litter,
Iggy Pop,
Arcadia,
Johnny Clarke,
The Victims,
Black Sheep,
Hoover,
The Cramps,
Beasts of Bourbon,
the Germs,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Black Dice,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.