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 Denmark and from Manchester.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Smoke to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 the Germs. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
A Certain Ratio,
Avey Tare,
Jacques Brel,
The Victims,
Basic Channel,
Schoolly D,
Todd Terry,
Mr. Review,
Nick Fraelich,
Lucky Dragons,
Sandy B,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Carl Craig,
Gastr Del Sol,
JFA,
Scratch Acid,
The Beau Brummels,
The Smiths,
Iggy Pop,
Bob Dylan,
Amon Düül II,
H. Thieme,
Dual Sessions,
Barrington Levy,
June of 44,
John Foxx,
The Monochrome Set,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
These Immortal Souls,
Morten Harket,
David Bowie,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Index,
Whodini,
New York Dolls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Soul II Soul,
Neu!,
Warsaw,
Erykah Badu,
Glenn Branca,
David McCallum,
The Tremeloes,
The Young Rascals,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Neil Young,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cheater Slicks,
Robert Wyatt,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Human League,
Fifty Foot Hose,
AZ,
Skaos,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Magma,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Golliwogs,
Minny Pops,
Oneida,
Tim Buckley,
Nils Olav, Nils Olav, Nils Olav, Nils Olav.
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.