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 Chile and from Salvador.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 linndrum 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 Soft Cell 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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Second Layer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Velvet Underground record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Soft Machine,
Maleditus Sound,
Sandy B,
Jandek,
Aaron Thompson,
Heaven 17,
Neu!,
Basic Channel,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Offenders,
The Misunderstood,
the Soft Cell,
Groovy Waters,
The Red Krayola,
Robert Hood,
Underground Resistance,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Busters,
Robert Wyatt,
Barry Ungar,
Ituana,
Das Ding,
Bad Manners,
New Order,
The Tremeloes,
The Saints,
Moss Icon,
Albert Ayler,
The Techniques,
Sound Behaviour,
Nils Olav,
Negative Approach,
Kayak,
Radiohead,
Nas,
Easy Going,
The Smiths,
Slave,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Normal,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Move,
F. McDonald,
Black Flag,
Organ,
The Toasters,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Todd Terry,
CMW,
Black Bananas,
The Vogues,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jeff Mills,
Quando Quango,
Bronski Beat,
Dave Gahan,
The Modern Lovers,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.