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 Ethiopia and from Philadelphia.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Human League to the rock 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 Prince Buster. All the underground hits.
All Arab on Radar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Lydon 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Rundgren record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonny Sharrock,
Todd Rundgren,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jawbox,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Blossom Toes,
Todd Terry,
Faust,
Oblivians,
Lightning Bolt,
The Last Poets,
Peter and Kerry,
MDC,
Roxy Music,
Gang of Four,
The Monks,
Excepter,
Chrome,
Lyres,
Skarface,
Scan 7,
Graham Central Station,
Electric Prunes,
The Angels of Light,
Moss Icon,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Michelle Simonal,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Crash Course in Science,
Eric Copeland,
Warren Ellis,
Unrelated Segments,
Adolescents,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Tropical Tobacco,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
John Coltrane,
Gerry Rafferty,
cv313,
The Invisible,
FM Einheit,
The Mojo Men,
Janne Schatter,
Duran Duran,
David Bowie,
Delon & Dalcan,
Stiv Bators,
Donald Byrd,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Heaven 17,
kango's stein massive,
Max Romeo,
Joe Finger,
Dennis Brown,
Anthony Braxton,
Godley & Creme,
Massinfluence,
The Fuzztones,
Negative Approach,
China Crisis,
Dawn Penn,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.