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 Lebanon and from London.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Davy DMX to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
U.S. Maple,
Underground Resistance,
The Electric Prunes,
Aswad,
Neil Young,
Bauhaus,
Dual Sessions,
Tim Buckley,
Susan Cadogan,
Crash Course in Science,
Toni Rubio,
Graham Central Station,
Gichy Dan,
Stetsasonic,
Essential Logic,
The Residents,
Qualms,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lou Reed,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Organ,
The Martian,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Nick Fraelich,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Oneida,
The Golliwogs,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Barracudas,
Angry Samoans,
Gang Green,
La Düsseldorf,
The Misunderstood,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Interpol,
Intrusion,
Excepter,
K-Klass,
the Human League,
Rosa Yemen,
The Trojans,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
OOIOO,
The Seeds,
48th St. Collective,
World's Most,
Fluxion,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lindisfarne,
Massinfluence,
Smog,
LL Cool J,
Radiopuhelimet,
Camberwell Now,
Rotary Connection,
Los Fastidios,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.