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 Latvia and from Bremen.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 theremin 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 The Real Kids to the grime 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 Arthur Verocai. All the underground hits.
All Kerri Chandler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Con Funk Shun,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Neil Young,
Underground Resistance,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Alison Limerick,
Dave Gahan,
This Heat,
Average White Band,
Public Enemy,
Ten City,
Popol Vuh,
Tomorrow,
Von Mondo,
Joensuu 1685,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bad Manners,
Icehouse,
Lee Hazlewood,
X-101,
Groovy Waters,
Suburban Knight,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Alarm Clocks,
Barrington Levy,
Pulsallama,
Heaven 17,
Niagra,
Alice Coltrane,
Royal Trux,
Crispy Ambulance,
Todd Terry,
The Remains,
John Cale,
Lightning Bolt,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Slackers,
Steve Hackett,
L. Decosne,
Vainqueur,
The Gun Club,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Iggy Pop,
Connie Case,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bobby Sherman,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Scrapy,
The Searchers,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Monolake,
Thee Headcoats,
Half Japanese,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gastr Del Sol,
Hoover,
Cymande,
Pere Ubu,
Joe Finger,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.