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 Finland and from Portland.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Neu! to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Wake. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barclay James Harvest record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bobby Womack,
John Foxx,
Amon Düül II,
Barclay James Harvest,
Surgeon,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
JFA,
Sound Behaviour,
Althea and Donna,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Tommy Roe,
The Blackbyrds,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
MC5,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gerry Rafferty,
the Fania All-Stars,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The J.B.'s,
Khruangbin,
Joe Smooth,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Cramps,
Pantytec,
E-Dancer,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Joy Division,
Jeru the Damaja,
Dead Boys,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Associates,
Howard Jones,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Make Up,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nik Kershaw,
Gabor Szabo,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Junior Murvin,
Patti Smith,
Sam Rivers,
The Seeds,
Public Enemy,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Moebius,
Excepter,
Funky Four + One,
AZ,
Chrome,
Thompson Twins,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Pierre Henry,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.