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 Belgium and from Portland.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Madrid.
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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Lebanon Hanover to the grime 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 Connie Case. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pussy Galore record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lee Hazlewood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Unrelated Segments,
Boredoms,
These Immortal Souls,
Absolute Body Control,
Mission of Burma,
Thompson Twins,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Patti Smith,
Motorama,
The Pop Group,
The Detroit Cobras,
Cluster,
Al Stewart,
Brick,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bootsy Collins,
Robert Görl,
Davy DMX,
Eric B and Rakim,
Monolake,
Letta Mbulu,
New York Dolls,
Pantytec,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sex Pistols,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Agent Orange,
ABC,
Faraquet,
John Holt,
H. Thieme,
DJ Style,
Swell Maps,
Eric Dolphy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cameo,
The Count Five,
Rapeman,
Scrapy,
Crime,
Hardrive,
Dual Sessions,
Janne Schatter,
The United States of America,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ornette Coleman,
The Blues Magoos,
The Litter,
Outsiders,
the Germs,
The Dave Clark Five,
Animal Collective,
The Skatalites,
Ralphi Rosario,
Derrick Morgan,
One Last Wish,
Maurizio,
Crispy Ambulance,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Q and Not U,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.