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 Togo and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 rhodes 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 Q65 to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All Rosa Yemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Fraelich record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Rundgren record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fat Boys,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Brass Construction,
Sound Behaviour,
Youth Brigade,
Peter & Gordon,
Echospace,
Negative Approach,
Rotary Connection,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ronan,
The Cowsills,
The Fire Engines,
Little Man,
The American Breed,
The Remains,
Cabaret Voltaire,
David Axelrod,
The Velvet Underground,
June Days,
The Sound,
Aaron Thompson,
Khruangbin,
Boogie Down Productions,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Boz Scaggs,
Half Japanese,
Charles Mingus,
Con Funk Shun,
Joey Negro,
Cymande,
Circle Jerks,
Pussy Galore,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Black Dice,
Sonny Sharrock,
10cc,
Electric Prunes,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Golliwogs,
Soul Sonic Force,
Intrusion,
Pylon,
Pole,
Chris Corsano,
Fatback Band,
The Leaves,
Wolf Eyes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
DJ Style,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Sonics,
Ossler,
DJ Sneak,
Goldenarms,
Piero Umiliani,
Marmalade,
Wings,
World's Most,
Roy Ayers,
The Count Five,
Franke,
The Divine Comedy,
June of 44, June of 44, June of 44, June of 44.
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.