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 Cyprus and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Bronski Beat to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Christie 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 linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris Corsano record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Near,
Brick,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Monochrome Set,
the Sonics,
Main Source,
The Fall,
Joey Negro,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bad Manners,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Animal Collective,
The Leaves,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Toasters,
Gang Gang Dance,
Young Marble Giants,
Nation of Ulysses,
Make Up,
Tomorrow,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Niagra,
Morten Harket,
Laurel Aitken,
Rotary Connection,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bush Tetras,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bill Wells,
Glambeats Corp.,
Parry Music,
Matthew Halsall,
Lower 48,
Alton Ellis,
Mr. Review,
Stiv Bators,
Brand Nubian,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bobby Byrd,
Bang On A Can,
Gastr Del Sol,
Dual Sessions,
Supertramp,
Peter & Gordon,
Joensuu 1685,
The Birthday Party,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Shuggie Otis,
Hasil Adkins,
Roxy Music,
Black Pus,
Angry Samoans,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Grass Roots,
Unwound,
Soft Machine,
The Seeds,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.