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 China 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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 clarinet 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Con Funk Shun. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tres Demented,
Icehouse,
Big Daddy Kane,
ABBA,
Hoover,
Bad Manners,
The Electric Prunes,
Soulsonic Force,
Scott Walker,
Marc Almond,
Dead Boys,
Mantronix,
Robert Wyatt,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Rakim,
Visage,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Velvet Underground,
Anakelly,
Pulsallama,
Swans,
Gabor Szabo,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Nick Fraelich,
Sparks,
John Cale,
The Birthday Party,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Brass Construction,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sister Nancy,
Gang of Four,
Boogie Down Productions,
KRS-One,
Yazoo,
Black Moon,
Index,
Model 500,
Vladislav Delay,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sarah Menescal,
Tears for Fears,
Yaz,
Ohio Players,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Toasters,
Massinfluence,
Terrestrial Tones,
Television,
New Order,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Aural Exciters,
Jawbox,
Kenny Larkin,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Althea and Donna,
The Young Rascals,
Lungfish,
Y Pants,
Basic Channel,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.