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 Taiwan and from Seoul.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Can to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 H. Thieme. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
The Mojo Men,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Echospace,
Au Pairs,
Max Romeo,
June Days,
Rufus Thomas,
Minor Threat,
Bill Wells,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Alphaville,
Unwound,
PIL,
The Vogues,
Symarip,
Erasure,
Lou Reed,
Black Moon,
Alton Ellis,
Drive Like Jehu,
Accadde A,
Connie Case,
Aaron Thompson,
The Smiths,
The Saints,
Second Layer,
Can,
Joyce Sims,
Shuggie Otis,
Skriet,
Laurel Aitken,
Sun City Girls,
The Names,
John Holt,
The Trojans,
The Dirtbombs,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Victims,
Lower 48,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
8 Eyed Spy,
Soul II Soul,
The Human League,
Donald Byrd,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Detroit Cobras,
Bobby Byrd,
John Foxx,
Radiopuhelimet,
Procol Harum,
Boogie Down Productions,
Arthur Verocai,
Excepter,
Pantaleimon,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gong,
Amon Düül II,
The Residents,
Maurizio,
The Young Rascals,
Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe.
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.