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 Taiwan and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Wake 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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gabor Szabo,
Bad Manners,
Young Marble Giants,
Swans,
Von Mondo,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Crooked Eye,
Sandy B,
Sex Pistols,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Dawn Penn,
Hot Snakes,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Whodini,
Japan,
kango's stein massive,
Jeff Mills,
UT,
New York Dolls,
T.S.O.L.,
Roy Ayers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Hardrive,
Freddie Wadling,
Yusef Lateef,
Scientists,
The Young Rascals,
Accadde A,
K-Klass,
The Skatalites,
Sexual Harrassment,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Colin Newman,
Maurizio,
Avey Tare,
Motorama,
New Age Steppers,
Max Romeo,
Nico,
ABC,
Anakelly,
The Misunderstood,
X-101,
Stiv Bators,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pagans,
Negative Approach,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Crime,
Matthew Bourne,
Technova,
Popol Vuh,
Dual Sessions,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Tropical Tobacco,
Harmonia,
Boredoms,
Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction.
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.