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 Japan and from Accra.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the guitar 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 Lou Reed to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Banda Bassotti. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arthur Verocai record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nik Kershaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Dead Boys,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Boogie Down Productions,
Dennis Brown,
Joy Division,
48th St. Collective,
Niagra,
Mary Jane Girls,
Con Funk Shun,
Roxette,
Scratch Acid,
The Stooges,
Jandek,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Heaven 17,
Yaz,
Lalann,
Amon Düül,
E-Dancer,
Derrick May,
Alphaville,
Silicon Teens,
The Motions,
Marmalade,
Erasure,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Dark Day,
Nirvana,
Marvin Gaye,
Subhumans,
Unrelated Segments,
Camouflage,
Minutemen,
Chris Corsano,
Wire,
Matthew Halsall,
MC5,
Bauhaus,
Danielle Patucci,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pulsallama,
FM Einheit,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Tres Demented,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Juan Atkins,
Letta Mbulu,
Scan 7,
Mandrill,
The Vogues,
Dave Gahan,
Eric Dolphy,
Country Teasers,
Marine Girls,
Flash Fearless,
Franke,
Cal Tjader,
PIL,
a-ha,
Todd Rundgren,
Reagan Youth,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.