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 Qatar and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Delhi.
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 synthesizer 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 CMW to the disco 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 Gian Franco Pienzio. All the underground hits.
All Rosa Yemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Remains,
Roxette,
a-ha,
Patti Smith,
Panda Bear,
The Offenders,
ABBA,
Electric Prunes,
Carl Craig,
The Doors,
Pantytec,
Zero Boys,
Ronan,
Minny Pops,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Monolake,
MDC,
The Smiths,
Man Eating Sloth,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Motions,
The Black Dice,
Pet Shop Boys,
Tom Boy,
Sonic Youth,
The Selecter,
Albert Ayler,
Scan 7,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Suicide,
The Evens,
Pere Ubu,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Saints,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Basic Channel,
Scientists,
Boz Scaggs,
The Kinks,
Swans,
Nirvana,
The Slackers,
Peter and Kerry,
Simply Red,
AZ,
Arthur Verocai,
Thompson Twins,
R.M.O.,
Marine Girls,
Essential Logic,
Amon Düül,
Derrick May,
DNA,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Vainqueur,
The Seeds,
Jeru the Damaja,
Barrington Levy,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Supertramp,
Johnny Osbourne,
Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee.
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.