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 Afghanistan and from Edmonton.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The United States of America to the techno 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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Pussy Galore tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 48th St. Collective 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 clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
The Young Rascals,
The Gap Band,
The Count Five,
The Modern Lovers,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Wings,
A Certain Ratio,
LL Cool J,
the Germs,
Metal Thangz,
Mo-Dettes,
Wally Richardson,
Peter & Gordon,
Lou Reed,
Section 25,
Davy DMX,
Lower 48,
Sight & Sound,
Malaria!,
Black Flag,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Derrick Morgan,
Panda Bear,
Second Layer,
Bobby Womack,
Bauhaus,
Guru Guru,
Schoolly D,
Visage,
The Techniques,
The Wake,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Television Personalities,
Scion,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Intrusion,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Tommy Roe,
Q65,
Radio Birdman,
Fela Kuti,
The Vogues,
Janne Schatter,
Dorothy Ashby,
Todd Terry,
Soulsonic Force,
Dave Gahan,
These Immortal Souls,
Pussy Galore,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Procol Harum,
The Misunderstood,
Easy Going,
Echospace,
Interpol,
Amon Düül II,
Thee Headcoats,
Royal Trux,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
10cc,
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.