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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Sao Paulo.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to the rap 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 The Litter. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
Josef K,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Stetsasonic,
Banda Bassotti,
The Martian,
Hoover,
Severed Heads,
Toni Rubio,
U.S. Maple,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Zero Boys,
Funkadelic,
the Fania All-Stars,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Clear Light,
AZ,
Joe Finger,
Eli Mardock,
Soulsonic Force,
Suicide,
Byron Stingily,
Michelle Simonal,
Kool Moe Dee,
Mars,
Agitation Free,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
MDC,
Sonny Sharrock,
Black Pus,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Unrelated Segments,
Cybotron,
The Durutti Column,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Nils Olav,
Mo-Dettes,
Babytalk,
Henry Cow,
The Neon Judgement,
Rites of Spring,
The Divine Comedy,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Metal Thangz,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cheater Slicks,
Wire,
Quando Quango,
CMW,
The Velvet Underground,
Duran Duran,
Jeff Lynne,
Thee Headcoats,
Heaven 17,
Sister Nancy,
Echospace,
The Slits,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
the Sonics,
Scion,
Visage,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Red Krayola,
The Doors, The Doors, The Doors, The Doors.
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.