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 Papua New Guinea and from Madrid.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Television to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mary Jane Girls,
U.S. Maple,
Ralphi Rosario,
Swell Maps,
The Star Department,
Harpers Bizarre,
Technova,
Todd Rundgren,
Junior Murvin,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The United States of America,
Lalann,
Lebanon Hanover,
Girls At Our Best!,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sugar Minott,
One Last Wish,
Television,
Heaven 17,
Nick Fraelich,
Yaz,
Parry Music,
Judy Mowatt,
the Soft Cell,
Monks,
The Sonics,
Nirvana,
The Beau Brummels,
The Tremeloes,
Henry Cow,
Rites of Spring,
Jesper Dahlback,
Matthew Halsall,
The Red Krayola,
The Fuzztones,
the Association,
kango's stein massive,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Durutti Column,
Flipper,
Jeff Mills,
Moss Icon,
LL Cool J,
Section 25,
The Velvet Underground,
Sight & Sound,
The Neon Judgement,
Scott Walker,
Hot Snakes,
The Dave Clark Five,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Gap Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Detroit Cobras,
Pharoah Sanders,
Deepchord,
Delon & Dalcan,
Zero Boys,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Youth Brigade,
Swans,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.