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 Saudi Arabia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 Cairo and Stockholm.
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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Faust to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
The Raincoats,
David McCallum,
Aloha Tigers,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Tres Demented,
Adolescents,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Depeche Mode,
Maurizio,
Letta Mbulu,
The Blackbyrds,
The Associates,
Basic Channel,
Crispy Ambulance,
Steve Hackett,
Wire,
Soulsonic Force,
Audionom,
The Moody Blues,
Lungfish,
Funkadelic,
Excepter,
Marcia Griffiths,
London Community Gospel Choir,
China Crisis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lower 48,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Animal Collective,
Jeff Lynne,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Deepchord,
Kas Product,
Barbara Tucker,
Angry Samoans,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Tremeloes,
Inner City,
The Birthday Party,
DJ Sneak,
Soft Cell,
Freddie Wadling,
The Victims,
DJ Style,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Neil Young,
The Monks,
Gang of Four,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Velvet Underground,
Lightning Bolt,
The Cramps,
Harry Pussy,
DNA,
Heaven 17,
Moss Icon,
David Axelrod,
Swell Maps,
Gang Starr,
The Remains,
Popol Vuh,
Skarface,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.