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 Afghanistan and from Lille.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Bush Tetras to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Organ 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 rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lightning Bolt,
Pole,
Marine Girls,
Sarah Menescal,
Bob Dylan,
Pussy Galore,
Godley & Creme,
Glenn Branca,
U.S. Maple,
Minutemen,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Stetsasonic,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Motorama,
Groovy Waters,
Michelle Simonal,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lou Reed,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bad Manners,
Robert Görl,
The New Christs,
Ice-T,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Technova,
Metal Thangz,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kool Moe Dee,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Yusef Lateef,
Ronan,
Negative Approach,
Man Parrish,
Rakim,
Alton Ellis,
Mars,
Silicon Teens,
Mary Jane Girls,
the Fania All-Stars,
Alphaville,
New York Dolls,
Popol Vuh,
X-102,
The Busters,
the Normal,
Accadde A,
Sonic Youth,
Eddi Front,
Minor Threat,
Jeru the Damaja,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
EPMD,
Aloha Tigers,
Pet Shop Boys,
Moss Icon,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Adolescents,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.