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 Laos and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Minor Threat to the funk 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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Golliwogs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Metal Thangz,
Danielle Patucci,
Gang Starr,
Slave,
Soulsonic Force,
Sandy B,
Max Romeo,
Guru Guru,
Toni Rubio,
The Wake,
Von Mondo,
the Germs,
Television,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ornette Coleman,
Niagra,
Jandek,
In Retrospect,
Hot Snakes,
The Gun Club,
MC5,
Visage,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Janne Schatter,
LL Cool J,
Henry Cow,
Harry Pussy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kaleidoscope,
Television Personalities,
Sam Rivers,
Funky Four + One,
Soft Machine,
The Sonics,
Cameo,
D'Angelo,
Public Enemy,
Marcia Griffiths,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Charles Mingus,
Tom Boy,
Boz Scaggs,
Banda Bassotti,
Make Up,
Angry Samoans,
The Fire Engines,
ABC,
Silicon Teens,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Marc Almond,
Pere Ubu,
The Real Kids,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sarah Menescal,
Joe Smooth,
Maleditus Sound,
The Red Krayola,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Count Five,
The Dave Clark Five,
Stereo Dub,
Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip.
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.