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 Mauritius and from Columbus.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Moebius to the electroclash 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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Sonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Das Ding,
These Immortal Souls,
Suicide,
Von Mondo,
Ultra Naté,
Nik Kershaw,
The New Christs,
The Techniques,
Ten City,
Bobby Sherman,
Scratch Acid,
Jacques Brel,
Crime,
Ralphi Rosario,
Dawn Penn,
Joy Division,
Jerry's Kids,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
a-ha,
Steve Hackett,
Icehouse,
L. Decosne,
Average White Band,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Trumans Water,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Minor Threat,
Rotary Connection,
The J.B.'s,
The Move,
Skarface,
Guru Guru,
The Saints,
Easy Going,
Oneida,
Throbbing Gristle,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Morten Harket,
The Modern Lovers,
Warren Ellis,
The Red Krayola,
Lakeside,
Procol Harum,
The Mojo Men,
Colin Newman,
Aural Exciters,
Letta Mbulu,
48th St. Collective,
The Pretty Things,
Funkadelic,
Sonny Sharrock,
Marc Almond,
The Fugs,
The Monks,
FM Einheit,
Amon Düül,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Harpers Bizarre,
Flash Fearless,
Davy DMX,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.