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 Monaco and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the snare 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 Althea and Donna to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every F. McDonald record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fuzztones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Coltrane,
Warren Ellis,
Supertramp,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kaleidoscope,
Erasure,
The Dave Clark Five,
Groovy Waters,
cv313,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Happenings,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Fela Kuti,
Dawn Penn,
Organ,
Roxy Music,
Rufus Thomas,
D'Angelo,
The Grass Roots,
Moebius,
Rakim,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Swans,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Guru Guru,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Theoretical Girls,
Marc Almond,
the Association,
Drexciya,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Dennis Brown,
X-Ray Spex,
Half Japanese,
Soft Cell,
Accadde A,
Nils Olav,
the Fania All-Stars,
New Order,
Jeff Lynne,
Buzzcocks,
David Bowie,
Faraquet,
Darondo,
China Crisis,
Dark Day,
The Real Kids,
Aaron Thompson,
Andrew Hill,
Amon Düül,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
U.S. Maple,
Deakin,
the Bar-Kays,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Gories,
Black Flag,
Swell Maps,
Pere Ubu,
Ronan,
The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers.
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.