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 Morocco and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 oboe 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 Fad Gadget to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Piero Umiliani,
The Invisible,
Clear Light,
Pere Ubu,
Neu!,
Popol Vuh,
Ultra Naté,
Robert Wyatt,
Black Sheep,
Rosa Yemen,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Schoolly D,
Mad Mike,
The Toasters,
Avey Tare,
The Durutti Column,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bang On A Can,
FM Einheit,
Derrick May,
Wolf Eyes,
Gichy Dan,
The Fuzztones,
EPMD,
Isaac Hayes,
Zapp,
UT,
Aaron Thompson,
Audionom,
Magazine,
MDC,
Andrew Hill,
the Fania All-Stars,
R.M.O.,
Scrapy,
Minny Pops,
David McCallum,
F. McDonald,
Blancmange,
Juan Atkins,
Negative Approach,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Fall,
Model 500,
Junior Murvin,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Matthew Halsall,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marcia Griffiths,
T.S.O.L.,
B.T. Express,
Johnny Osbourne,
Tres Demented,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Amon Düül,
Massinfluence,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bobby Sherman,
Althea and Donna,
Sexual Harrassment,
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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.