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 Monaco and from Glasgow.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Dark Day to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lungfish,
Bad Manners,
David Bowie,
Cheater Slicks,
Popol Vuh,
Dawn Penn,
Gerry Rafferty,
Cecil Taylor,
The Misunderstood,
Mark Hollis,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Hashim,
Can,
LL Cool J,
Man Eating Sloth,
Tomorrow,
Interpol,
Siglo XX,
Tim Buckley,
Aaron Thompson,
Simply Red,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Girls At Our Best!,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Magma,
The Doors,
Crispy Ambulance,
MC5,
Robert Hood,
Altered Images,
The Flesh Eaters,
Amon Düül II,
The Cure,
Crash Course in Science,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rod Modell,
Agent Orange,
Glenn Branca,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
F. McDonald,
The J.B.'s,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sugar Minott,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Pere Ubu,
Soul II Soul,
The Black Dice,
Soft Cell,
Hot Snakes,
Motorama,
David Axelrod,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Jeff Lynne,
Sight & Sound,
Electric Prunes,
Stiv Bators,
Metal Thangz,
Subhumans,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.