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 New Zealand and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 oboe 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 The United States of America to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Buzzcocks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
Derrick Morgan,
Wings,
ABC,
Pere Ubu,
Mission of Burma,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Invisible,
Zero Boys,
Bobby Womack,
Glenn Branca,
The Doors,
Camouflage,
Bush Tetras,
The Real Kids,
DJ Sneak,
The Walker Brothers,
Lightning Bolt,
FM Einheit,
Dennis Brown,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Altered Images,
Fear,
Scott Walker,
Prince Buster,
Al Stewart,
Kerrie Biddell,
Piero Umiliani,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Golliwogs,
Intrusion,
Lakeside,
Eyeless In Gaza,
David Axelrod,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Kinks,
Ludus,
The Young Rascals,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ponytail,
Quando Quango,
Mantronix,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Babytalk,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Depeche Mode,
The Seeds,
Rod Modell,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Oneida,
Hoover,
Main Source,
Rites of Spring,
June Days,
Cybotron,
Rotary Connection,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.