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 Afghanistan and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Taipei.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ossler,
Matthew Bourne,
Animal Collective,
The Fall,
Ronnie Foster,
The Offenders,
Sex Pistols,
OOIOO,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Main Source,
Janne Schatter,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Anthony Braxton,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aloha Tigers,
The Standells,
Vladislav Delay,
Suburban Knight,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Man Parrish,
The Pretty Things,
Slave,
Popol Vuh,
Visage,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Masters at Work,
Excepter,
Magma,
The Busters,
K-Klass,
the Bar-Kays,
Curtis Mayfield,
Alphaville,
Glenn Branca,
Mission of Burma,
Yaz,
The Gap Band,
Lightning Bolt,
The Slits,
The Gories,
Sparks,
The Gladiators,
Mary Jane Girls,
Mad Mike,
Tim Buckley,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Japan,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Fortunes,
Jerry's Kids,
Brass Construction,
Lebanon Hanover,
Altered Images,
Sandy B,
Q and Not U,
Harmonia,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Goldenarms,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills.
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.