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 Namibia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 guitar 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 Jandek to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Hill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Bourne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fortunes,
The Fuzztones,
Nik Kershaw,
Bobby Womack,
Simply Red,
Dennis Brown,
Guru Guru,
Scion,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Evens,
Half Japanese,
Danielle Patucci,
Infiniti,
Kas Product,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Pylon,
The Barracudas,
Robert Hood,
Gang Green,
Minor Threat,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pere Ubu,
New Age Steppers,
MC5,
the Swans,
Funky Four + One,
X-101,
Cheater Slicks,
Bill Near,
Suicide,
Bill Wells,
Blake Baxter,
The Happenings,
Kerri Chandler,
Delta 5,
Lalann,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lindisfarne,
Rod Modell,
Agent Orange,
This Heat,
Deadbeat,
Make Up,
Boredoms,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Grauzone,
Yazoo,
Sparks,
Flamin' Groovies,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Gang of Four,
Siglo XX,
Pierre Henry,
Technova,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Raincoats,
Kevin Saunderson,
the Germs,
Aural Exciters,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.