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 Guinea and from Lille.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Winnipeg.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the snare 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the techno 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 Jeff Mills. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Young Rascals,
Minutemen,
Gang Gang Dance,
Black Flag,
Fugazi,
Cymande,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Zero Boys,
ABC,
Moebius,
The Misunderstood,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
X-101,
Carl Craig,
L. Decosne,
Tim Buckley,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Faraquet,
Davy DMX,
The Mummies,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Derrick May,
Bob Dylan,
La Düsseldorf,
Gastr Del Sol,
Von Mondo,
Pagans,
Robert Hood,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
DJ Sneak,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Malaria!,
Radiohead,
Susan Cadogan,
The Divine Comedy,
Anakelly,
Anthony Braxton,
Blossom Toes,
The Trojans,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bluetip,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Tomorrow,
Skaos,
The Fuzztones,
Pierre Henry,
Pantaleimon,
Boogie Down Productions,
Newcleus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fear,
Max Romeo,
Derrick Morgan,
Connie Case,
The J.B.'s,
The Barracudas,
The Skatalites,
The Last Poets,
The Associates,
Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near.
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.