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 Chad and from Manila.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sparks to the punk 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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Crash Course in Science tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Lydon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Brick,
The Monks,
Rites of Spring,
The Fortunes,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Offenders,
Basic Channel,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Television,
Funkadelic,
The Sonics,
Boogie Down Productions,
T.S.O.L.,
Animal Collective,
Electric Prunes,
Silicon Teens,
The Mojo Men,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Hardrive,
Fugazi,
Donald Byrd,
Eddi Front,
The Associates,
Simply Red,
Cal Tjader,
Tears for Fears,
Joe Finger,
Godley & Creme,
Ralphi Rosario,
Das Ding,
Reuben Wilson,
Gong,
Soft Machine,
Anakelly,
The Skatalites,
the Association,
the Sonics,
Bootsy Collins,
Pharoah Sanders,
Minutemen,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
K-Klass,
Grey Daturas,
Carl Craig,
Rufus Thomas,
The Fall,
Cheater Slicks,
Wasted Youth,
KRS-One,
China Crisis,
Wolf Eyes,
Siglo XX,
Pantaleimon,
Minny Pops,
X-101,
The Sound,
The Knickerbockers,
Nik Kershaw,
Gerry Rafferty,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.