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 London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Dead Boys to the grunge 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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
H. Thieme,
Youth Brigade,
Urselle,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sonic Youth,
Swans,
Organ,
The Knickerbockers,
X-101,
Godley & Creme,
Quando Quango,
Interpol,
Minutemen,
Roxette,
Big Daddy Kane,
Byron Stingily,
Pole,
Pierre Henry,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Wake,
LL Cool J,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Main Source,
The Remains,
Fear,
Stereo Dub,
Pharoah Sanders,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Desert Stars,
Colin Newman,
Laurel Aitken,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ralphi Rosario,
Scion,
Susan Cadogan,
Ice-T,
John Lydon,
Gichy Dan,
Neu!,
Lungfish,
Bizarre Inc.,
Zero Boys,
Freddie Wadling,
Erasure,
Howard Jones,
Cybotron,
Thompson Twins,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Fortunes,
The Velvet Underground,
Rhythm & Sound,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ossler,
Wally Richardson,
Radiohead,
Oneida,
Alphaville,
ABBA,
Lyres,
The Slits, The Slits, The Slits, The Slits.
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.