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 Djibouti and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Throbbing Gristle to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Mars. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Con Funk Shun record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
The Grass Roots,
UT,
Janne Schatter,
The Raincoats,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Stereo Dub,
Ponytail,
The Real Kids,
Fugazi,
Mary Jane Girls,
Fort Wilson Riot,
John Cale,
Outsiders,
Black Sheep,
Trumans Water,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Brick,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gichy Dan,
Ice-T,
Khruangbin,
Harpers Bizarre,
Josef K,
Curtis Mayfield,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Infiniti,
K-Klass,
Neil Young,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jeff Mills,
Rod Modell,
Procol Harum,
Black Pus,
Lower 48,
Harmonia,
Aural Exciters,
Kerri Chandler,
The Associates,
Pet Shop Boys,
Girls At Our Best!,
Animal Collective,
The Neon Judgement,
The Techniques,
Goldenarms,
Gregory Isaacs,
Robert Hood,
The Monochrome Set,
Roger Hodgson,
Nils Olav,
Kurtis Blow,
Das Ding,
Matthew Bourne,
The American Breed,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sixth Finger,
Darondo,
Traffic Nightmare,
B.T. Express,
Skarface,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Blake Baxter,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.