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 Gambia and from Hong Kong.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro 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 Al Stewart to the techno 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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Ten City,
Piero Umiliani,
Supertramp,
The Pretty Things,
Robert Wyatt,
Moebius,
James White and The Blacks,
Wasted Youth,
Oneida,
Sällskapet,
Joensuu 1685,
Underground Resistance,
Babytalk,
Davy DMX,
Wolf Eyes,
Nirvana,
L. Decosne,
Unwound,
Desert Stars,
Bill Wells,
Pharoah Sanders,
Essential Logic,
Radiopuhelimet,
T. Rex,
The Offenders,
Maurizio,
Patti Smith,
Tim Buckley,
Yellowson,
Moss Icon,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Soulsonic Force,
Stereo Dub,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Toasters,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Janne Schatter,
Surgeon,
MC5,
the Sonics,
Gabor Szabo,
Oblivians,
Fluxion,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Soft Cell,
Robert Hood,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tears for Fears,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
the Bar-Kays,
Vladislav Delay,
The Gladiators,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Dave Gahan,
Arab on Radar,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lucky Dragons,
Hardrive,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lakeside,
Roger Hodgson,
Cameo,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.