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 Israel and from Tehran.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Beijing.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Max Romeo to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Erykah Badu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ponytail 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Barclay James Harvest,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Blossom Toes,
Bush Tetras,
Wasted Youth,
Eli Mardock,
Lower 48,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Slackers,
Subhumans,
Porter Ricks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jacques Brel,
Saccharine Trust,
Crime,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rekid,
Flash Fearless,
DJ Style,
Stockholm Monsters,
Deadbeat,
Toni Rubio,
The Golliwogs,
David McCallum,
Black Sheep,
Skarface,
Nick Fraelich,
Peter & Gordon,
Steve Hackett,
The Buckinghams,
Alison Limerick,
Althea and Donna,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Laurel Aitken,
Newcleus,
Tim Buckley,
The Last Poets,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fela Kuti,
Sound Behaviour,
The Happenings,
Spoonie Gee,
Smog,
The Sonics,
Derrick May,
Agitation Free,
Index,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Fugs,
Pussy Galore,
Piero Umiliani,
Cymande,
KRS-One,
Robert Hood,
Radio Birdman,
Swans,
Nas,
Oneida,
Warsaw,
Massinfluence,
Bang On A Can,
John Holt,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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.