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 India and from Mexico City.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Calgary.
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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shuggie Otis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swans,
John Holt,
Animal Collective,
Trumans Water,
MDC,
T.S.O.L.,
Boogie Down Productions,
Basic Channel,
Jawbox,
Maurizio,
The Cowsills,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Prince Buster,
Main Source,
Scan 7,
Lungfish,
Public Image Ltd.,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Grey Daturas,
E-Dancer,
The Modern Lovers,
Popol Vuh,
James White and The Blacks,
Average White Band,
Don Cherry,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sister Nancy,
Icehouse,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Monks,
Flash Fearless,
Infiniti,
David Bowie,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
John Lydon,
Joey Negro,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
the Normal,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Rotary Connection,
Alice Coltrane,
Y Pants,
Jeru the Damaja,
Black Moon,
Black Sheep,
John Coltrane,
Gabor Szabo,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ultra Naté,
Jimmy McGriff,
Scratch Acid,
Desert Stars,
Mo-Dettes,
Yellowson,
Letta Mbulu,
Scion,
Magma,
D'Angelo,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.