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 Bangladesh and from Milan.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar 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 Los Fastidios to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Bobby Womack. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Massinfluence,
H. Thieme,
AZ,
Soulsonic Force,
KRS-One,
Hashim,
Tropical Tobacco,
Amon Düül II,
Scientists,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Brass Construction,
Cluster,
Lightning Bolt,
Michelle Simonal,
Vladislav Delay,
Sex Pistols,
Monolake,
The Moody Blues,
Supertramp,
Junior Murvin,
Lebanon Hanover,
Matthew Bourne,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Suicide,
Jawbox,
UT,
The Slits,
Accadde A,
The Fuzztones,
Hoover,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jeru the Damaja,
Section 25,
Swans,
Peter & Gordon,
The Busters,
Isaac Hayes,
Al Stewart,
Excepter,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joey Negro,
Khruangbin,
Josef K,
Tommy Roe,
Iggy Pop,
Con Funk Shun,
Ten City,
Negative Approach,
The Tremeloes,
Saccharine Trust,
Rhythm & Sound,
B.T. Express,
Icehouse,
Chris Corsano,
The Skatalites,
Henry Cow,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Saints,
Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance.
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.