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 Portugal and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 synthesizer 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 Tomorrow to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Leaves. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Model 500 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eric B and Rakim,
Wolf Eyes,
The Evens,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ronnie Foster,
JFA,
Johnny Osbourne,
Technova,
Joey Negro,
Section 25,
Make Up,
The Gap Band,
The Fire Engines,
Jacob Miller,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Man Eating Sloth,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Althea and Donna,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Pop Group,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sister Nancy,
Absolute Body Control,
The Fall,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The J.B.'s,
The Birthday Party,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Cramps,
Public Image Ltd.,
David Bowie,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pierre Henry,
Agent Orange,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Smiths,
Pet Shop Boys,
the Bar-Kays,
Bang On A Can,
Pharoah Sanders,
Janne Schatter,
The Monks,
Sam Rivers,
Carl Craig,
The Slits,
June of 44,
New York Dolls,
Radio Birdman,
Gang of Four,
Ultimate Spinach,
Alton Ellis,
Arcadia,
The Victims,
Scan 7,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.