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 Albania and from Houston.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the guitar 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 Scratch Acid to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magma record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Joensuu 1685,
Ponytail,
DJ Sneak,
Pagans,
10cc,
Kevin Saunderson,
Nirvana,
Tropical Tobacco,
Erasure,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
the Association,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Supertramp,
Porter Ricks,
The Gladiators,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Oblivians,
kango's stein massive,
Alison Limerick,
The Slackers,
The Residents,
Radiopuhelimet,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The New Christs,
The Detroit Cobras,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bobby Byrd,
Jawbox,
Country Teasers,
Joy Division,
Interpol,
Von Mondo,
Absolute Body Control,
The Tremeloes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Kas Product,
Spoonie Gee,
Amazonics,
Crime,
Warsaw,
Joe Finger,
DNA,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Blake Baxter,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Shadows of Knight,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Skaos,
Skarface,
Nick Fraelich,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eurythmics,
The Moleskins,
Blancmange,
Ice-T,
Howard Jones,
The Fall,
Rekid,
The Doors,
The Blues Magoos,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Evens,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.