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 Vietnam and from Bologna.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Tubeway Army to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All The Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Laurel Aitken record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Amazonics,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Second Layer,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Nik Kershaw,
Freddie Wadling,
Soulsonic Force,
Lyres,
Peter & Gordon,
kango's stein massive,
The Trojans,
Little Man,
Bush Tetras,
the Human League,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Girls At Our Best!,
Yazoo,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gregory Isaacs,
Electric Prunes,
Skriet,
Essential Logic,
Josef K,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Althea and Donna,
This Heat,
Ken Boothe,
Terry Callier,
Bobby Womack,
Neu!,
Country Teasers,
Radiopuhelimet,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Duran Duran,
Zapp,
Eli Mardock,
DNA,
L. Decosne,
F. McDonald,
Crooked Eye,
Young Marble Giants,
Alison Limerick,
Leonard Cohen,
Kurtis Blow,
Pantytec,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lebanon Hanover,
Negative Approach,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Derrick May,
Erasure,
The Skatalites,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Wasted Youth,
Letta Mbulu,
The Gories,
Depeche Mode,
Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed.
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.