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 Thailand and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Moody Blues to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Bobbi Humphrey,
New Order,
Sound Behaviour,
Inner City,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Unrelated Segments,
Dave Gahan,
Hardrive,
Spoonie Gee,
Erasure,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
CMW,
Fela Kuti,
The Moleskins,
The Sonics,
The Walker Brothers,
The Fortunes,
New York Dolls,
The Electric Prunes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Monks,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Dave Clark Five,
K-Klass,
Donald Byrd,
The Count Five,
Livin' Joy,
Al Stewart,
Technova,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
LL Cool J,
Massinfluence,
Section 25,
The Five Americans,
The Cowsills,
Joensuu 1685,
Rufus Thomas,
The Kinks,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pylon,
Minny Pops,
UT,
Royal Trux,
DJ Style,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Blake Baxter,
Lindisfarne,
Derrick Morgan,
The Tremeloes,
Youth Brigade,
Skarface,
Black Sheep,
Skaos,
Desert Stars,
Boogie Down Productions,
Avey Tare,
The Detroit Cobras,
Amon Düül,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.