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 Turkey and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 arpeggiator 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 Swans to the dance 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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
Jeff Mills,
The Birthday Party,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bang On A Can,
Bob Dylan,
Thee Headcoats,
X-102,
Marine Girls,
The Moody Blues,
Rosa Yemen,
Bronski Beat,
Kayak,
Crime,
FM Einheit,
E-Dancer,
The Skatalites,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Fluxion,
Avey Tare,
Bobbi Humphrey,
X-Ray Spex,
Babytalk,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Saccharine Trust,
Heaven 17,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Sonics,
The Gladiators,
X-101,
Monolake,
Davy DMX,
Sandy B,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Scott Walker,
MC5,
Masters at Work,
The J.B.'s,
Von Mondo,
Infiniti,
The Stooges,
Sister Nancy,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Busters,
Tubeway Army,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Velvet Underground,
Radiopuhelimet,
Khruangbin,
The Move,
Scan 7,
LL Cool J,
Model 500,
Don Cherry,
The Young Rascals,
Ralphi Rosario,
Mad Mike,
The Human League,
Ultimate Spinach,
Porter Ricks,
ABC,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.