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 Solomon Islands and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Quadrant to the disco 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 The Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All Hoover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
Monolake,
Aaron Thompson,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Neil Young,
Minor Threat,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Leaves,
Babytalk,
Mandrill,
Desert Stars,
Motorama,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Neu!,
Rufus Thomas,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Evens,
The Invisible,
The Sound,
Letta Mbulu,
Flipper,
Godley & Creme,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Anthony Braxton,
Bobby Byrd,
The Cure,
Vainqueur,
Barrington Levy,
Todd Rundgren,
Urselle,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
June of 44,
Boogie Down Productions,
Fat Boys,
Sun City Girls,
The Last Poets,
Funky Four + One,
Thompson Twins,
Blake Baxter,
Patti Smith,
Silicon Teens,
Don Cherry,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gregory Isaacs,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Guru Guru,
Laurel Aitken,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ronnie Foster,
Cal Tjader,
Cymande,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Terrestrial Tones,
Jeff Mills,
Junior Murvin,
Vladislav Delay,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sonic Youth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.