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 Korea South and from Philadelphia.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sound Behaviour to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Altered Images tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crash Course in Science record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
The Vogues,
Stockholm Monsters,
Warren Ellis,
The Wake,
The Music Machine,
Depeche Mode,
Bill Wells,
The Stooges,
Idris Muhammad,
Shuggie Otis,
New Order,
Nick Fraelich,
Accadde A,
Bootsy Collins,
Von Mondo,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ultimate Spinach,
Maurizio,
Piero Umiliani,
Animal Collective,
Symarip,
Lalann,
Gichy Dan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Barry Ungar,
Scrapy,
Sonny Sharrock,
Interpol,
The Cowsills,
Glambeats Corp.,
Nirvana,
Das Ding,
Sonic Youth,
Amon Düül II,
Echospace,
Moby Grape,
LL Cool J,
Infiniti,
Section 25,
The Standells,
Sun Ra,
Marvin Gaye,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tres Demented,
Subhumans,
The Names,
Bang On A Can,
Yaz,
Peter and Kerry,
Junior Murvin,
Wire,
Little Man,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Masters at Work,
The Fugs,
DJ Sneak,
Electric Prunes,
Buzzcocks,
The Angels of Light,
Shoche,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.