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 Germany and from Hong Kong.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Shanghai.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Jesper Dahlbäck 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 The Walker Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Altered Images tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Bronski Beat,
Marine Girls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Johnny Osbourne,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Tim Buckley,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bluetip,
The Cowsills,
Ten City,
Tears for Fears,
Ice-T,
Audionom,
Eddi Front,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Standells,
The Martian,
Barbara Tucker,
Whodini,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gladiators,
Banda Bassotti,
Hashim,
Deadbeat,
Iggy Pop,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Hardrive,
Stereo Dub,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pharoah Sanders,
New York Dolls,
Peter & Gordon,
Gerry Rafferty,
In Retrospect,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pulsallama,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Freddie Wadling,
Groovy Waters,
Barrington Levy,
Connie Case,
The Fugs,
CMW,
The Searchers,
Eric Copeland,
the Sonics,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Letta Mbulu,
Animal Collective,
Theoretical Girls,
Bizarre Inc.,
Joyce Sims,
Subhumans,
Ronnie Foster,
The Busters,
Leonard Cohen,
Cluster,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.