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 Grenada and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 kango's stein massive to the techno 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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Throbbing Gristle 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 snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terror Squad Feat. Camron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
Yaz,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Janne Schatter,
Reuben Wilson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Zero Boys,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Soft Machine,
Skriet,
Judy Mowatt,
Icehouse,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gabor Szabo,
Fear,
Juan Atkins,
The Beau Brummels,
The Star Department,
Swell Maps,
Wings,
DNA,
Letta Mbulu,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Basic Channel,
Lakeside,
Oblivians,
Tom Boy,
Youth Brigade,
Sunsets and Hearts,
La Düsseldorf,
The Divine Comedy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
KRS-One,
The Martian,
The Gories,
Minutemen,
Soul II Soul,
Technova,
Babytalk,
Erykah Badu,
Saccharine Trust,
Roxette,
Ossler,
Dark Day,
Negative Approach,
Lindisfarne,
Terrestrial Tones,
David Bowie,
Monks,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Quantec,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Busters,
Albert Ayler,
Stetsasonic,
The Standells,
Massinfluence,
Arthur Verocai,
Althea and Donna,
Jesper Dahlback,
Cybotron,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.