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 Madagascar and from Delhi.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Lou Reed & Metallica to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slits,
World's Most,
Nas,
The Pop Group,
Excepter,
Michelle Simonal,
Jerry's Kids,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Boredoms,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Soft Cell,
Siglo XX,
Smog,
Groovy Waters,
ABBA,
Chris Corsano,
Bush Tetras,
FM Einheit,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Tommy Roe,
Severed Heads,
DJ Sneak,
Ice-T,
The Evens,
The Blues Magoos,
Robert Görl,
Tim Buckley,
Marc Almond,
Mo-Dettes,
The Flesh Eaters,
Minor Threat,
The Last Poets,
China Crisis,
The Golliwogs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kas Product,
Rhythm & Sound,
Grauzone,
Patti Smith,
The Techniques,
Anthony Braxton,
Soulsonic Force,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Depeche Mode,
T.S.O.L.,
The Doobie Brothers,
Rites of Spring,
Half Japanese,
Das Ding,
T. Rex,
Swell Maps,
Ken Boothe,
Tom Boy,
Ultra Naté,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Selecter,
Bootsy Collins,
Outsiders,
Stockholm Monsters,
Anakelly,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.