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 Ivory Coast and from Hong Kong.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 guitar 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 Neu! to the jazz 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 Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rosa Yemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Christie,
Underground Resistance,
Jimmy McGriff,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Warren Ellis,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lalo Schifrin,
Juan Atkins,
New York Dolls,
The Mummies,
The Walker Brothers,
Kas Product,
Black Sheep,
The Evens,
Tubeway Army,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ten City,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Yaz,
Ronan,
Lakeside,
Qualms,
Ornette Coleman,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Dennis Brown,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Slackers,
Pagans,
Loose Ends,
ABC,
Liliput,
Ituana,
Amon Düül,
the Swans,
Sandy B,
Tom Boy,
Brick,
Little Man,
The Toasters,
The Human League,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Spoonie Gee,
The Red Krayola,
Kurtis Blow,
John Holt,
The Neon Judgement,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Suburban Knight,
John Foxx,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Quantec,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Gun Club,
Bauhaus,
Fluxion,
The Fortunes,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.