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 Monaco and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 DJ Style to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Buckinghams. All the underground hits.
All Von Mondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Finger 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacques Brel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lucky Dragons,
John Coltrane,
Cameo,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Raincoats,
Maurizio,
Excepter,
These Immortal Souls,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Zero Boys,
Joe Finger,
Whodini,
One Last Wish,
8 Eyed Spy,
Max Romeo,
Robert Hood,
Quadrant,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gang Starr,
New Order,
Al Stewart,
Marcia Griffiths,
Graham Central Station,
the Swans,
Roxy Music,
The Slits,
Procol Harum,
KRS-One,
Ice-T,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jacques Brel,
The Skatalites,
Heaven 17,
The Offenders,
Barbara Tucker,
Soul II Soul,
Altered Images,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bush Tetras,
Eli Mardock,
kango's stein massive,
Thee Headcoats,
Matthew Bourne,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Camberwell Now,
Tears for Fears,
A Certain Ratio,
The Martian,
Gichy Dan,
Boogie Down Productions,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Soft Cell,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
ABBA,
Deepchord,
Organ,
The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club.
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.