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 Luxembourg and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Thee Headcoats to the electroclash 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 Brothers Johnson. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiopuhelimet,
K-Klass,
Gang Starr,
Todd Rundgren,
Lungfish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Radio Birdman,
The Motions,
Goldenarms,
New Age Steppers,
Oblivians,
Moss Icon,
MDC,
Lee Hazlewood,
Gabor Szabo,
Joe Finger,
Public Image Ltd.,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Drive Like Jehu,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Popol Vuh,
Blancmange,
The Stooges,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pantaleimon,
F. McDonald,
Thompson Twins,
The Gap Band,
Black Pus,
Talk Talk,
June Days,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Eurythmics,
Amon Düül,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Circle Jerks,
Model 500,
Hasil Adkins,
In Retrospect,
Babytalk,
Sällskapet,
Lou Christie,
Barrington Levy,
Nas,
Rhythm & Sound,
Interpol,
Ken Boothe,
Barbara Tucker,
Section 25,
Desert Stars,
Idris Muhammad,
the Germs,
Malaria!,
Cheater Slicks,
Depeche Mode,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joy Division,
The Music Machine,
Adolescents,
Alton Ellis,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.