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 Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 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 Maurizio to the rock 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 Jacob Miller. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Lydon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Joy Division,
Roxette,
The Doobie Brothers,
Depeche Mode,
The Last Poets,
Monolake,
Arab on Radar,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Whodini,
Radiohead,
the Bar-Kays,
Gang Starr,
David Axelrod,
The United States of America,
Bauhaus,
LL Cool J,
Marmalade,
Surgeon,
Skarface,
Lucky Dragons,
Bronski Beat,
The Smiths,
Essential Logic,
the Soft Cell,
Bill Wells,
Mr. Review,
Lungfish,
The Victims,
Drive Like Jehu,
Quadrant,
The Music Machine,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Soft Machine,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Albert Ayler,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Alton Ellis,
Delta 5,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bad Manners,
Yaz,
Isaac Hayes,
The Dave Clark Five,
X-101,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lalann,
The Fire Engines,
Connie Case,
Scion,
Neil Young,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
X-102,
Das Ding,
The Cure,
Ken Boothe,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound.
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.