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 Zambia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Tim Buckley to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All The Kinks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a These Immortal Souls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Eric Copeland,
Siglo XX,
Skarface,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ronan,
New York Dolls,
The Pretty Things,
The Vogues,
Procol Harum,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bang On A Can,
Newcleus,
Rufus Thomas,
Q65,
Reuben Wilson,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
World's Most,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jeff Lynne,
The Smiths,
Television Personalities,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Altered Images,
Outsiders,
Groovy Waters,
Isaac Hayes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
In Retrospect,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
kango's stein massive,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Erykah Badu,
Nas,
Skaos,
Sonic Youth,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Subhumans,
Robert Wyatt,
Rekid,
Swans,
Public Enemy,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kayak,
Henry Cow,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Kaleidoscope,
the Sonics,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Young Rascals,
Prince Buster,
Brothers Johnson,
Erasure,
Moby Grape,
Matthew Bourne,
Technova,
Bad Manners,
Parry Music,
China Crisis,
Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat.
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.