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 Macedonia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the güiro 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 Bauhaus to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All Rhythm & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerrie Biddell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Toasters,
Harmonia,
The Modern Lovers,
OOIOO,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
A Flock of Seagulls,
the Slits,
Minnie Riperton,
the Swans,
Amon Düül II,
Radiohead,
Eden Ahbez,
Nils Olav,
Max Romeo,
The Detroit Cobras,
John Lydon,
Piero Umiliani,
EPMD,
Jerry's Kids,
Simply Red,
John Foxx,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Aloha Tigers,
Masters at Work,
Marvin Gaye,
Drive Like Jehu,
Matthew Bourne,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Morten Harket,
Brick,
Japan,
R.M.O.,
The Velvet Underground,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Boz Scaggs,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Johnny Osbourne,
Amazonics,
MC5,
Gabor Szabo,
Reagan Youth,
UT,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
the Human League,
Talk Talk,
Wings,
Cymande,
Symarip,
Eddi Front,
Malaria!,
Lower 48,
Pantytec,
Rod Modell,
Todd Rundgren,
Rufus Thomas,
Byron Stingily,
Peter and Kerry,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.