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 Denmark and from Sao Paulo.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All Mark Hollis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-Ray Spex 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
Marvin Gaye,
Amon Düül,
Pylon,
Rotary Connection,
Reagan Youth,
Bizarre Inc.,
Essential Logic,
Dennis Brown,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Supertramp,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bootsy Collins,
Mantronix,
Quando Quango,
Fat Boys,
Radio Birdman,
The Cowsills,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lungfish,
Black Pus,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
the Association,
Bluetip,
Robert Wyatt,
Eurythmics,
The Grass Roots,
Soulsonic Force,
8 Eyed Spy,
Mo-Dettes,
Sun City Girls,
Faust,
Neu!,
Bill Near,
Sight & Sound,
Adolescents,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bill Wells,
The Dave Clark Five,
Warren Ellis,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
AZ,
New Order,
The Evens,
Mary Jane Girls,
Spoonie Gee,
Eden Ahbez,
Main Source,
Prince Buster,
Jesper Dahlback,
Average White Band,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bad Manners,
Marmalade,
This Heat,
Nick Fraelich,
Kerri Chandler,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Magazine,
Flipper,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Slits,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.