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 Georgia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Real Kids to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Marshall Jefferson,
ABC,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Index,
Gang Gang Dance,
Altered Images,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Stooges,
Amon Düül II,
Duran Duran,
Hot Snakes,
Gichy Dan,
Boogie Down Productions,
Niagra,
the Normal,
Stetsasonic,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Swell Maps,
Fela Kuti,
Crime,
Mantronix,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Detroit Cobras,
Accadde A,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Brand Nubian,
Bill Near,
Moby Grape,
Soulsonic Force,
Model 500,
Sixth Finger,
Boz Scaggs,
The Move,
The Names,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Yaz,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lightning Bolt,
Moebius,
Radiohead,
Rotary Connection,
Graham Central Station,
June Days,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Procol Harum,
Absolute Body Control,
Letta Mbulu,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Newcleus,
Soul Sonic Force,
Qualms,
X-101,
Glenn Branca,
New York Dolls,
Wings,
These Immortal Souls,
Chrome,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Visage,
The Monks,
Quadrant,
The Happenings,
Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller.
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.