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 New Zealand and from Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
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 Joy Division to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Altered Images. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eddi Front record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Durutti Column,
Rekid,
Big Daddy Kane,
Yellowson,
Brick,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Human League,
Robert Görl,
Eric Copeland,
Barbara Tucker,
Little Man,
Flamin' Groovies,
Quadrant,
Moebius,
Technova,
Bobby Sherman,
Chrome,
Fugazi,
Bronski Beat,
Derrick Morgan,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Al Stewart,
Crooked Eye,
Skaos,
Minor Threat,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pantaleimon,
Gregory Isaacs,
Moss Icon,
Siglo XX,
DJ Style,
Agitation Free,
UT,
Colin Newman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Human League,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Black Moon,
Cymande,
Aaron Thompson,
Steve Hackett,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Fuzztones,
The Grass Roots,
Dave Gahan,
MC5,
Jerry's Kids,
Erasure,
Juan Atkins,
Accadde A,
Adolescents,
Electric Prunes,
Panda Bear,
Lucky Dragons,
Monks,
Heaven 17,
Nirvana,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sixth Finger,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.