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 Colombia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 Halifax and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Nico to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Bar-Kays record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wasted Youth,
Panda Bear,
Flipper,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
John Cale,
the Soft Cell,
Mandrill,
The Slits,
Franke,
Faust,
Moss Icon,
China Crisis,
Bob Dylan,
the Sonics,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Neon Judgement,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Infiniti,
Ossler,
Banda Bassotti,
Rhythm & Sound,
Barbara Tucker,
Tubeway Army,
Basic Channel,
Thee Headcoats,
Al Stewart,
Sarah Menescal,
Simply Red,
kango's stein massive,
Camberwell Now,
The Grass Roots,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Graham Central Station,
Blake Baxter,
Scan 7,
Au Pairs,
ABBA,
Brothers Johnson,
Delta 5,
Jimmy McGriff,
Procol Harum,
Sound Behaviour,
The Techniques,
Althea and Donna,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Spoonie Gee,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Janne Schatter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lightning Bolt,
The Moleskins,
a-ha,
The Star Department,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Michelle Simonal,
Marine Girls,
The Motions,
the Swans,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.