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 Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 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 Tubeway Army to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Sisters of Mercy. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
DJ Style,
The Stooges,
In Retrospect,
Circle Jerks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Alison Limerick,
Pagans,
Aloha Tigers,
Skaos,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Barracudas,
the Slits,
Piero Umiliani,
Rakim,
Loose Ends,
Black Sheep,
Curtis Mayfield,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Toni Rubio,
FM Einheit,
The Young Rascals,
Grey Daturas,
Excepter,
Joe Smooth,
Stereo Dub,
Mad Mike,
Roxy Music,
Scratch Acid,
Kool Moe Dee,
Eddi Front,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
John Cale,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rod Modell,
Oblivians,
Interpol,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Janne Schatter,
Altered Images,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Nick Fraelich,
Kevin Saunderson,
Robert Wyatt,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Al Stewart,
Cheater Slicks,
Derrick May,
Pierre Henry,
Gang Green,
Sun City Girls,
Banda Bassotti,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Monks,
Agitation Free,
Gong,
Trumans Water,
K-Klass,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.