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 Uzbekistan and from Manchester.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Glambeats Corp. to the punk 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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All The Velvet Underground tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Techniques,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Godley & Creme,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jawbox,
Sun City Girls,
Toni Rubio,
Buzzcocks,
Main Source,
Rekid,
Television,
Infiniti,
Visage,
Smog,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Crooked Eye,
Royal Trux,
Amazonics,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Panda Bear,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Count Five,
Minutemen,
Pylon,
Roy Ayers,
Soul Sonic Force,
Scientists,
Joey Negro,
Glenn Branca,
the Slits,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Youth Brigade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rod Modell,
Lungfish,
Loose Ends,
The Shadows of Knight,
Connie Case,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Goldenarms,
cv313,
Adolescents,
Ituana,
Derrick Morgan,
Suburban Knight,
Chris Corsano,
The American Breed,
the Swans,
Colin Newman,
the Sonics,
Sex Pistols,
The New Christs,
Ultra Naté,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kayak,
Underground Resistance,
ABBA,
Brand Nubian,
Sugar Minott,
Piero Umiliani,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.