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 Jamaica and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Winnipeg.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Soul II Soul to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Move. All the underground hits.
All A Flock of Seagulls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
Crooked Eye,
Massinfluence,
The Count Five,
Robert Görl,
kango's stein massive,
Lucky Dragons,
Procol Harum,
June Days,
Sonic Youth,
Absolute Body Control,
10cc,
The Five Americans,
These Immortal Souls,
a-ha,
Tommy Roe,
Lower 48,
World's Most,
Heaven 17,
Matthew Bourne,
The Misunderstood,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
New York Dolls,
Oblivians,
Oneida,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Fall,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bronski Beat,
Terrestrial Tones,
Cameo,
The Motions,
Marvin Gaye,
Half Japanese,
Little Man,
Unrelated Segments,
X-101,
Max Romeo,
Connie Case,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Iggy Pop,
The Cure,
Wings,
The Durutti Column,
Eurythmics,
Pet Shop Boys,
FM Einheit,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Theoretical Girls,
The Birthday Party,
Smog,
Black Moon,
ABBA,
Cluster,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Minutemen,
Banda Bassotti,
David Axelrod,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.