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 Algeria and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Lyon and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Normal to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
Masters at Work,
Agent Orange,
Crime,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
DJ Style,
Barbara Tucker,
Tubeway Army,
One Last Wish,
Dark Day,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Supertramp,
Soul Sonic Force,
Intrusion,
Sällskapet,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Skaos,
Charles Mingus,
Peter & Gordon,
Joe Finger,
Soul II Soul,
Darondo,
Kerrie Biddell,
Alice Coltrane,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Chrome,
Terrestrial Tones,
Surgeon,
The Pop Group,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Happenings,
Swans,
B.T. Express,
The Names,
Marcia Griffiths,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Shuggie Otis,
Ultravox,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Moody Blues,
Harpers Bizarre,
Black Flag,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sam Rivers,
June of 44,
In Retrospect,
China Crisis,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ituana,
The Grass Roots,
Althea and Donna,
Sixth Finger,
Eve St. Jones,
The Smoke,
Sonny Sharrock,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
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.