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 Greece 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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Maleditus Sound to the techno 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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Danielle Patucci tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sugar Minott,
Main Source,
kango's stein massive,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Traffic Nightmare,
Bootsy Collins,
OOIOO,
Matthew Halsall,
Peter & Gordon,
Aaron Thompson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Neu!,
Sam Rivers,
E-Dancer,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Move,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Yaz,
Roxette,
the Fania All-Stars,
Crooked Eye,
The Blues Magoos,
Cluster,
Mandrill,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kurtis Blow,
Soul II Soul,
10cc,
Vainqueur,
Alton Ellis,
Byron Stingily,
The Gun Club,
The Happenings,
Ronnie Foster,
Banda Bassotti,
Basic Channel,
The Modern Lovers,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Aswad,
Jesper Dahlback,
Isaac Hayes,
Electric Prunes,
Monolake,
K-Klass,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Mojo Men,
Oneida,
Todd Rundgren,
Gang Green,
Rod Modell,
R.M.O.,
Tom Boy,
Graham Central Station,
Anthony Braxton,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Toasters,
F. McDonald,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.