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 Tonga and from Sao Paulo.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade to the dance 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 Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fugazi,
Mission of Burma,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Public Image Ltd.,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Judy Mowatt,
Silicon Teens,
Lebanon Hanover,
Suicide,
The Doobie Brothers,
Q and Not U,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Nick Fraelich,
Lakeside,
Deakin,
Bush Tetras,
Morten Harket,
The Index,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Unrelated Segments,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kenny Larkin,
FM Einheit,
Electric Prunes,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Warsaw,
Lightning Bolt,
Moss Icon,
Infiniti,
Minor Threat,
Wolf Eyes,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Human League,
These Immortal Souls,
Erasure,
Charles Mingus,
Man Parrish,
Inner City,
Jerry's Kids,
Soulsonic Force,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Rotary Connection,
Alphaville,
Oblivians,
Wire,
Davy DMX,
Bang On A Can,
Lucky Dragons,
Althea and Donna,
Livin' Joy,
Adolescents,
Erykah Badu,
Brothers Johnson,
Cameo,
Parry Music,
kango's stein massive,
Essential Logic,
Brass Construction,
Dennis Brown,
Popol Vuh,
The Fortunes,
Porter Ricks,
Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's.
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.