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 Kuwait and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Wire to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Human League. All the underground hits.
All Tropical Tobacco tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Sheep record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agent Orange,
The Tremeloes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Fall,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Harpers Bizarre,
the Germs,
Sonic Youth,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ralphi Rosario,
Grey Daturas,
The Modern Lovers,
Henry Cow,
Section 25,
Barrington Levy,
Aural Exciters,
Animal Collective,
The Barracudas,
Cymande,
Terrestrial Tones,
Trumans Water,
Ultra Naté,
Easy Going,
Yusef Lateef,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Visage,
Kerrie Biddell,
Tropical Tobacco,
Kenny Larkin,
Accadde A,
Fear,
Ten City,
Prince Buster,
Quadrant,
The Fortunes,
the Association,
Warren Ellis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ken Boothe,
The Flesh Eaters,
Radiohead,
Cecil Taylor,
Desert Stars,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Traffic Nightmare,
Girls At Our Best!,
John Coltrane,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Brass Construction,
Brothers Johnson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Neu!,
Lungfish,
Youth Brigade,
Newcleus,
Depeche Mode,
The Gap Band,
Subhumans,
Moebius,
the Sonics,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust.
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.