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 Lesotho and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Divine Comedy to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Loose Ends record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
Swell Maps,
Avey Tare,
Janne Schatter,
Cymande,
Parry Music,
Joyce Sims,
8 Eyed Spy,
Urselle,
Fad Gadget,
The Fuzztones,
The Dave Clark Five,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lee Hazlewood,
Dawn Penn,
E-Dancer,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Joe Smooth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Golliwogs,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Trojans,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Curtis Mayfield,
Jesper Dahlback,
Chrome,
The Blues Magoos,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Red Krayola,
Delta 5,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Fat Boys,
Fugazi,
Unrelated Segments,
Cameo,
Donald Byrd,
Johnny Clarke,
The Monks,
Judy Mowatt,
Steve Hackett,
Yazoo,
Spandau Ballet,
Blossom Toes,
The Gories,
Schoolly D,
Althea and Donna,
Eli Mardock,
The Wake,
OOIOO,
Pharoah Sanders,
Joey Negro,
Nils Olav,
Stiv Bators,
The Fugs,
Ken Boothe,
Graham Central Station,
The Evens,
Rites of Spring,
Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army.
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.