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 Czech Republic and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 mellotron 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 Barbara Tucker to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lou Reed. All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
Whodini,
Ten City,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Dirtbombs,
Bobby Womack,
Jacob Miller,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joyce Sims,
Curtis Mayfield,
Trumans Water,
New Order,
R.M.O.,
Kerri Chandler,
Section 25,
Gabor Szabo,
Joy Division,
Fatback Band,
The Sound,
Colin Newman,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Aural Exciters,
Ken Boothe,
Funky Four + One,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Offenders,
F. McDonald,
Aloha Tigers,
Con Funk Shun,
Ossler,
Darondo,
Cal Tjader,
Mars,
Negative Approach,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Technova,
Lee Hazlewood,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ash Ra Tempel,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dave Gahan,
Tubeway Army,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Stetsasonic,
Byron Stingily,
MDC,
Danielle Patucci,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Dave Clark Five,
Arab on Radar,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Flamin' Groovies,
Agent Orange,
Grauzone,
World's Most,
The Pop Group,
Delta 5,
Bad Manners,
Terry Callier,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rhythm & Sound,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.