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 Greece and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the crunk 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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All The Sisters of Mercy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bob Dylan 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Clear Light,
Rosa Yemen,
Black Sheep,
Harry Pussy,
The Sound,
These Immortal Souls,
Gang Green,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Steve Hackett,
Cheater Slicks,
Deepchord,
Nation of Ulysses,
Wire,
Reagan Youth,
Joe Smooth,
Warren Ellis,
Anthony Braxton,
Icehouse,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Malaria!,
Kurtis Blow,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Byron Stingily,
Marvin Gaye,
The Remains,
Alton Ellis,
Soft Cell,
The Wake,
Visage,
The Searchers,
Pierre Henry,
Sixth Finger,
X-102,
Black Flag,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lee Hazlewood,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Althea and Donna,
Marmalade,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Basic Channel,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
the Soft Cell,
Sister Nancy,
The Modern Lovers,
Boz Scaggs,
Niagra,
Public Enemy,
Camouflage,
K-Klass,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
a-ha,
Tears for Fears,
CMW,
Kaleidoscope,
Gichy Dan,
David Axelrod,
The Standells,
Joensuu 1685,
Talk Talk,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.