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 Montenegro and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Pylon to the crunk 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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Flag record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scrapy,
The Slits,
Maurizio,
Sun City Girls,
Michelle Simonal,
Unwound,
Arab on Radar,
The Divine Comedy,
Guru Guru,
Country Teasers,
Max Romeo,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Massinfluence,
E-Dancer,
La Düsseldorf,
PIL,
Loose Ends,
the Soft Cell,
Robert Hood,
Moby Grape,
Danielle Patucci,
a-ha,
The Monochrome Set,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kas Product,
Nirvana,
The Durutti Column,
Cymande,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Zero Boys,
Wally Richardson,
Radiohead,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Real Kids,
Bang On A Can,
The Zeros,
Symarip,
the Human League,
Bizarre Inc.,
8 Eyed Spy,
Nik Kershaw,
Reuben Wilson,
Crash Course in Science,
John Lydon,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Connie Case,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Scion,
X-Ray Spex,
Pantaleimon,
Scott Walker,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Happenings,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
David McCallum,
Gang of Four,
Q65,
Agent Orange,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Raincoats,
Duran Duran,
The Fall,
Erykah Badu,
Neu!, Neu!, Neu!, Neu!.
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.