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 South Sudan and from Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 June Days to the techno 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All The Mummies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Kinks 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Tubeway Army,
Glenn Branca,
Sun City Girls,
Radiopuhelimet,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Grass Roots,
Don Cherry,
Al Stewart,
Thee Headcoats,
Sound Behaviour,
Fort Wilson Riot,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Doobie Brothers,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Animal Collective,
Dennis Brown,
La Düsseldorf,
Graham Central Station,
the Soft Cell,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Gories,
Youth Brigade,
Wings,
Second Layer,
Siglo XX,
Derrick May,
Hasil Adkins,
the Bar-Kays,
Delta 5,
Brand Nubian,
Ossler,
Public Image Ltd.,
Icehouse,
The Fugs,
Deadbeat,
Chris Corsano,
Sight & Sound,
Dave Gahan,
Brick,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Echospace,
Marshall Jefferson,
Arcadia,
T.S.O.L.,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Scratch Acid,
The Techniques,
The Stooges,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Parry Music,
D'Angelo,
Bang On A Can,
Charles Mingus,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Godley & Creme,
Nico,
Urselle,
Lightning Bolt,
The Velvet Underground,
Pylon,
Tommy Roe,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.