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 Bangladesh and from Cairo.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Bologna.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ 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 Kaleidoscope to the rock 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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II 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?
Eurythmics,
Trumans Water,
Deakin,
Al Stewart,
John Foxx,
Arab on Radar,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Negative Approach,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Slave,
kango's stein massive,
David Axelrod,
X-101,
The Divine Comedy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Anthony Braxton,
The American Breed,
The Selecter,
Amazonics,
Camberwell Now,
Half Japanese,
The Seeds,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Skriet,
Drive Like Jehu,
Michelle Simonal,
Unwound,
Tomorrow,
Jeff Lynne,
Q and Not U,
Aswad,
The Leaves,
Erasure,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Last Poets,
Traffic Nightmare,
Janne Schatter,
Ludus,
Goldenarms,
The Mojo Men,
Magma,
Supertramp,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tommy Roe,
Mandrill,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
DJ Style,
The Saints,
Thee Headcoats,
Mad Mike,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Brothers Johnson,
Leonard Cohen,
Nas,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Jeff Mills,
Lou Reed,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Sound,
The Angels of Light,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.