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 Belarus and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 organ 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 Harmonia to the grunge 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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sisters of Mercy 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mandrill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
The Velvet Underground,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gabor Szabo,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Eric Dolphy,
Nas,
Eve St. Jones,
Johnny Clarke,
Flipper,
The Wake,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Offenders,
LL Cool J,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Divine Comedy,
Albert Ayler,
Freddie Wadling,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ice-T,
Television Personalities,
Oblivians,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Gladiators,
Oneida,
Stiv Bators,
Darondo,
Glenn Branca,
Graham Central Station,
The New Christs,
Sight & Sound,
Sarah Menescal,
Bill Near,
Theoretical Girls,
Infiniti,
Wings,
Newcleus,
Model 500,
Judy Mowatt,
FM Einheit,
The Doobie Brothers,
Donny Hathaway,
Lalo Schifrin,
Stereo Dub,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Soul Sonic Force,
Tim Buckley,
Bobby Sherman,
Wasted Youth,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Eric Copeland,
Flamin' Groovies,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rufus Thomas,
Fugazi,
Funky Four + One,
Ten City,
Piero Umiliani,
Niagra,
Eddi Front,
The Fortunes, The Fortunes, The Fortunes, The Fortunes.
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.