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 Peru and from Stockholm.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the güiro 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 Bobby Sherman to the techno 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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eddi Front record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
Erasure,
Basic Channel,
Andrew Hill,
Drexciya,
Kerri Chandler,
Hardrive,
Bobby Hutcherson,
World's Most,
Gregory Isaacs,
Wally Richardson,
The Cure,
Funky Four + One,
Wolf Eyes,
Ituana,
Yaz,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Newcleus,
Peter & Gordon,
Malaria!,
The Pretty Things,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Red Krayola,
The Black Dice,
Unwound,
Blossom Toes,
The Monks,
Scott Walker,
The Detroit Cobras,
Metal Thangz,
Index,
the Sonics,
Joyce Sims,
Nils Olav,
The Smiths,
Bronski Beat,
Anakelly,
The Motions,
Y Pants,
Quando Quango,
Young Marble Giants,
Barry Ungar,
The Blackbyrds,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Misunderstood,
Camberwell Now,
Procol Harum,
Godley & Creme,
Silicon Teens,
Roxy Music,
Marc Almond,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Reagan Youth,
the Association,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
FM Einheit,
The Velvet Underground,
Nirvana,
Porter Ricks,
Idris Muhammad,
Tommy Roe,
Minnie Riperton,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.