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 Canada and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Intrusion 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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Magazine,
James White and The Blacks,
Boredoms,
Jeff Lynne,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Fad Gadget,
The Stooges,
U.S. Maple,
Sonic Youth,
Sarah Menescal,
Tres Demented,
Technova,
Eurythmics,
Scratch Acid,
Liliput,
Saccharine Trust,
Aswad,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Graham Central Station,
Avey Tare,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lyres,
the Association,
Pharoah Sanders,
Donald Byrd,
Dorothy Ashby,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Loose Ends,
Morten Harket,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
MC5,
Oblivians,
Rapeman,
Matthew Bourne,
Eve St. Jones,
Bronski Beat,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Joyce Sims,
Ronan,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Blake Baxter,
Carl Craig,
Faust,
PIL,
These Immortal Souls,
The Dirtbombs,
Rod Modell,
Bang On A Can,
Essential Logic,
LL Cool J,
Negative Approach,
Groovy Waters,
Marmalade,
Joensuu 1685,
Rufus Thomas,
The Last Poets,
Marshall Jefferson,
Porter Ricks,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.