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 Finland and from Calgary.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Normal to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Hot Snakes,
Crash Course in Science,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Minutemen,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Monolake,
Negative Approach,
Eric Dolphy,
Gang of Four,
The Golliwogs,
Barry Ungar,
K-Klass,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Alarm Clocks,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Crooked Eye,
Second Layer,
Michelle Simonal,
Sixth Finger,
Clear Light,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Quantec,
Swans,
Urselle,
Scion,
The Cure,
Brand Nubian,
Crispian St. Peters,
Al Stewart,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Nico,
Skaos,
EPMD,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
AZ,
Tom Boy,
The Smiths,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bluetip,
Underground Resistance,
Marcia Griffiths,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sun City Girls,
Fela Kuti,
Wasted Youth,
The Beau Brummels,
the Normal,
Altered Images,
The Gories,
The Walker Brothers,
Tears for Fears,
Harry Pussy,
Brass Construction,
Easy Going,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jandek,
The Residents,
Pantytec,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.