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 Zimbabwe and from Mexico City.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Tubeway Army to the electroclash 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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Aaron Thompson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Standells,
Deepchord,
Magma,
Simply Red,
Juan Atkins,
Pere Ubu,
New York Dolls,
The Durutti Column,
Skaos,
Urselle,
Barbara Tucker,
DJ Style,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Vogues,
Liliput,
The Martian,
Nik Kershaw,
The Toasters,
Clear Light,
Can,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Fuzztones,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pierre Henry,
Kool Moe Dee,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
kango's stein massive,
Cybotron,
Bluetip,
Soft Machine,
Crispian St. Peters,
Stetsasonic,
Adolescents,
Niagra,
Sexual Harrassment,
Moss Icon,
Underground Resistance,
Josef K,
Zero Boys,
The Trojans,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Dead C,
Eddi Front,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Grauzone,
Yaz,
Roxette,
Archie Shepp,
Masters at Work,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ronnie Foster,
Marine Girls,
The Kinks,
James White and The Blacks,
Alphaville,
Junior Murvin,
Susan Cadogan,
Amazonics,
Erykah Badu,
Section 25,
Arab on Radar,
This Heat,
Laurel Aitken,
Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now.
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.