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 Jamaica and from Mumbai.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the sitar 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the crunk 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 Connie Case. All the underground hits.
All Idris Muhammad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flamin' Groovies 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Gang Gang Dance,
Robert Görl,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sister Nancy,
Theoretical Girls,
Colin Newman,
Parry Music,
Zapp,
Ten City,
Marmalade,
Magma,
Brick,
The Blackbyrds,
Robert Wyatt,
Nick Fraelich,
One Last Wish,
The Smiths,
The Leaves,
Letta Mbulu,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Mandrill,
Subhumans,
Suburban Knight,
Tears for Fears,
Marine Girls,
Depeche Mode,
Skarface,
Skriet,
The Fire Engines,
Faust,
UT,
Leonard Cohen,
Roy Ayers,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Jandek,
Pet Shop Boys,
Severed Heads,
The Knickerbockers,
Roxy Music,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Joe Finger,
The Gun Club,
Procol Harum,
Lakeside,
Unrelated Segments,
The Techniques,
Dual Sessions,
Steve Hackett,
Funky Four + One,
Sonic Youth,
Ice-T,
Kaleidoscope,
Hot Snakes,
The Selecter,
The Names,
The Walker Brothers,
The Red Krayola,
Agitation Free,
The Cramps,
Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark 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.