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 Honduras and from Accra.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Johannesburg.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 La Düsseldorf to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Pretty Things. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moss Icon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fugs,
Loose Ends,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Idris Muhammad,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Robert Görl,
Heaven 17,
The Victims,
This Heat,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Pussy Galore,
The Cosmic Jokers,
D'Angelo,
Vladislav Delay,
June of 44,
Frankie Knuckles,
Stiv Bators,
Jeff Mills,
Pere Ubu,
Siglo XX,
Yaz,
Steve Hackett,
Country Teasers,
Yellowson,
Crispy Ambulance,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Quando Quango,
The Litter,
David Bowie,
Neu!,
Glenn Branca,
Flamin' Groovies,
Quadrant,
Man Eating Sloth,
Barry Ungar,
Sixth Finger,
Lalann,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
the Human League,
Von Mondo,
Radiopuhelimet,
Janne Schatter,
Can,
Hardrive,
Fatback Band,
Tommy Roe,
Kerrie Biddell,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Magma,
Sam Rivers,
Ken Boothe,
Skarface,
The Monks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Matthew Halsall,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Shoche,
Dark Day,
F. McDonald,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Camouflage,
Ice-T,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.