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 Estonia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Winnipeg.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Bang On A Can to the electroclash 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 Al Stewart. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
R.M.O.,
The New Christs,
Nils Olav,
K-Klass,
The Black Dice,
The Cure,
Grandmaster Flash,
Roxette,
Inner City,
Neu!,
Arcadia,
Television,
The Star Department,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Electric Prunes,
Laurel Aitken,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Associates,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Radiohead,
Shoche,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Smiths,
Malaria!,
Audionom,
Tomorrow,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Offenders,
Make Up,
Scott Walker,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ultra Naté,
Sparks,
The Fuzztones,
Dawn Penn,
John Holt,
Mo-Dettes,
Carl Craig,
The Buckinghams,
Television Personalities,
The Busters,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sun City Girls,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Essential Logic,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Quando Quango,
Sixth Finger,
The Moody Blues,
Eddi Front,
The Gladiators,
Thee Headcoats,
Pole,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bootsy Collins,
Erykah Badu,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lee Hazlewood,
Skarface,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.