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 Kuwait and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Camberwell Now to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Susan Cadogan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Wings,
Boredoms,
These Immortal Souls,
The Barracudas,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kerrie Biddell,
Audionom,
Delta 5,
Robert Hood,
The Standells,
Ronan,
Organ,
Jeru the Damaja,
Easy Going,
New Order,
Dawn Penn,
Sarah Menescal,
Fear,
Sugar Minott,
Cymande,
Barry Ungar,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Popol Vuh,
Fugazi,
Skarface,
KRS-One,
Bobby Byrd,
Lucky Dragons,
Los Fastidios,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
John Lydon,
The Cowsills,
The Knickerbockers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sällskapet,
the Germs,
The Black Dice,
the Normal,
The Index,
The Saints,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gong,
Nation of Ulysses,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Traffic Nightmare,
Scion,
Main Source,
Icehouse,
Donny Hathaway,
The Selecter,
UT,
Graham Central Station,
Procol Harum,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Masters at Work,
Lalo Schifrin,
Infiniti,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.