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 Marshall Islands and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Sao Paulo.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the snare 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 Jandek to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
Q65,
Kaleidoscope,
Amon Düül II,
Chrome,
Janne Schatter,
Supertramp,
Echospace,
Kas Product,
Danielle Patucci,
The Residents,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lucky Dragons,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Soft Cell,
Michelle Simonal,
10cc,
Deepchord,
Yusef Lateef,
Dawn Penn,
Jacob Miller,
The Black Dice,
The Pretty Things,
The Young Rascals,
June Days,
Circle Jerks,
Lou Christie,
E-Dancer,
Dead Boys,
Derrick May,
Buzzcocks,
Pet Shop Boys,
Flamin' Groovies,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Knickerbockers,
Connie Case,
Agent Orange,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Charles Mingus,
Grey Daturas,
Neil Young,
Interpol,
Make Up,
Erasure,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Popol Vuh,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Half Japanese,
Graham Central Station,
Bad Manners,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eric B and Rakim,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
MC5,
The Modern Lovers,
Pylon,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Magma,
Morten Harket,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
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.