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 Paraguay and from Columbus.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Michelle Simonal to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Blues Magoos. All the underground hits.
All Procol Harum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mojo Men record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
Eve St. Jones,
Eric Copeland,
Black Bananas,
Unrelated Segments,
Soulsonic Force,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Youth Brigade,
The Remains,
The Red Krayola,
The Happenings,
Brick,
Grauzone,
The Index,
Chris & Cosey,
OOIOO,
LL Cool J,
The Neon Judgement,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Velvet Underground,
Groovy Waters,
Ossler,
The Golliwogs,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pagans,
Connie Case,
Sarah Menescal,
the Human League,
Howard Jones,
H. Thieme,
Delta 5,
The Fugs,
Q and Not U,
Bobby Sherman,
Mission of Burma,
Gang Gang Dance,
E-Dancer,
John Cale,
The Flesh Eaters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
X-101,
Bronski Beat,
The Gladiators,
Donny Hathaway,
Little Man,
Stockholm Monsters,
Morten Harket,
John Foxx,
Half Japanese,
Davy DMX,
Deepchord,
The Slackers,
Silicon Teens,
Amon Düül II,
This Heat,
The Electric Prunes,
The Skatalites,
B.T. Express,
Rakim,
Minutemen,
Au Pairs,
Lungfish, Lungfish, Lungfish, Lungfish.
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.