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 Burundi and from New York.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the guitar 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 Black Sheep to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visage,
The Searchers,
Susan Cadogan,
Panda Bear,
Mark Hollis,
Zero Boys,
Intrusion,
Buzzcocks,
The Zeros,
Danielle Patucci,
Scion,
Harry Pussy,
Subhumans,
MC5,
Suburban Knight,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Gun Club,
Negative Approach,
Yellowson,
Sam Rivers,
The Monochrome Set,
Spoonie Gee,
Excepter,
Dead Boys,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Doobie Brothers,
Symarip,
Alison Limerick,
Crispy Ambulance,
Animal Collective,
Blossom Toes,
Chris Corsano,
Aaron Thompson,
R.M.O.,
Sound Behaviour,
John Coltrane,
Magma,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ronan,
Stockholm Monsters,
Guru Guru,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Mo-Dettes,
Terry Callier,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Neil Young,
Sex Pistols,
Marc Almond,
Joyce Sims,
Lucky Dragons,
Brand Nubian,
Bronski Beat,
Dennis Brown,
Unwound,
Ornette Coleman,
Agitation Free,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.