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 Belarus and from Manchester.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe 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 Pagans to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Buzzcocks. All the underground hits.
All Mary Jane Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound 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 New Christs,
Ludus,
Eurythmics,
World's Most,
Pulsallama,
Man Parrish,
The Residents,
Black Sheep,
MC5,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Smoke,
Lou Christie,
Todd Rundgren,
Kaleidoscope,
JFA,
Wasted Youth,
The Sound,
Das Ding,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Simply Red,
Michelle Simonal,
Clear Light,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bang On A Can,
Outsiders,
Joe Finger,
Gastr Del Sol,
Moss Icon,
Adolescents,
Mad Mike,
Heaven 17,
Animal Collective,
Sparks,
The Offenders,
Slave,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rites of Spring,
The Skatalites,
Quando Quango,
Piero Umiliani,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Beau Brummels,
Alphaville,
Pere Ubu,
Pagans,
CMW,
Silicon Teens,
The Electric Prunes,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Black Dice,
10cc,
Lightning Bolt,
The Young Rascals,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Danielle Patucci,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Fugs,
Kool Moe Dee,
Underground Resistance,
Colin Newman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stockholm Monsters,
Electric Prunes,
Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja.
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.