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 Kyrgyzstan and from Cairo.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Stockholm.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 UT to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Cell 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?
MC5,
Procol Harum,
PIL,
The Dirtbombs,
The Modern Lovers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Flash Fearless,
Sight & Sound,
Bronski Beat,
Organ,
The Seeds,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bush Tetras,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Misunderstood,
Television Personalities,
the Swans,
Pantaleimon,
Pole,
Public Enemy,
Loose Ends,
Nils Olav,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lee Hazlewood,
Scott Walker,
Moss Icon,
Traffic Nightmare,
Mary Jane Girls,
Dawn Penn,
Outsiders,
Audionom,
Clear Light,
Radiohead,
MDC,
Sun Ra,
New Order,
Shoche,
Bobby Womack,
The New Christs,
cv313,
Zero Boys,
Danielle Patucci,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Joe Smooth,
Thee Headcoats,
The Offenders,
The Mummies,
10cc,
Trumans Water,
Mars,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Fugs,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jacques Brel,
The Busters,
Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro.
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.