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 Switzerland and from Edmonton.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Sixth Finger to the techno 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees 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 sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Fania All-Stars,
Ponytail,
The Cramps,
Porter Ricks,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Cure,
Black Flag,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Judy Mowatt,
Angry Samoans,
Skarface,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Stooges,
Robert Wyatt,
Mad Mike,
The Star Department,
Brothers Johnson,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Soul II Soul,
Newcleus,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Tomorrow,
X-Ray Spex,
One Last Wish,
Rakim,
The Names,
Yazoo,
Sun City Girls,
Jesper Dahlback,
Crime,
Terrestrial Tones,
Tubeway Army,
Girls At Our Best!,
Wally Richardson,
Amon Düül,
Barry Ungar,
Amon Düül II,
the Slits,
The Fugs,
Wings,
F. McDonald,
Lungfish,
JFA,
the Germs,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bronski Beat,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dark Day,
The Busters,
The Blackbyrds,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Yaz,
Lakeside,
Soft Cell,
Royal Trux,
Crispian St. Peters,
kango's stein massive,
Eli Mardock,
Harmonia,
Procol Harum,
Barrington Levy,
Skriet,
Das Ding, Das Ding, Das Ding, Das Ding.
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.