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 Sudan and from Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Gories to the rap 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 The Fall. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barrington Levy 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Enemy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Idris Muhammad,
Quadrant,
Jerry's Kids,
Arcadia,
World's Most,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Black Pus,
The Angels of Light,
Reuben Wilson,
The Flesh Eaters,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
U.S. Maple,
Faraquet,
Grey Daturas,
CMW,
Mark Hollis,
Lakeside,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Radiohead,
Swell Maps,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
KRS-One,
John Lydon,
The Residents,
Can,
Bush Tetras,
The Stooges,
Delon & Dalcan,
Scan 7,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Yaz,
The Gories,
Altered Images,
Yellowson,
Aswad,
Dave Gahan,
Ultra Naté,
Michelle Simonal,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Golliwogs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cymande,
Kool Moe Dee,
Minor Threat,
Youth Brigade,
Bobby Sherman,
Qualms,
Cameo,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Marine Girls,
Audionom,
Sonny Sharrock,
Al Stewart,
John Foxx,
Kerrie Biddell,
Visage,
The Star Department,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.