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 Pakistan 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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 linndrum 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 Joy Division to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Near 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Animal Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siglo XX,
Sonny Sharrock,
FM Einheit,
Boz Scaggs,
The Stooges,
The Toasters,
New Age Steppers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Goldenarms,
The Residents,
Rosa Yemen,
Unrelated Segments,
New Order,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Slits,
Oneida,
the Bar-Kays,
Bobby Hutcherson,
the Normal,
Unwound,
Chris & Cosey,
Tears for Fears,
Massinfluence,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Brothers Johnson,
The Music Machine,
Dual Sessions,
Public Enemy,
B.T. Express,
Yazoo,
Supertramp,
Bill Wells,
The Motions,
Whodini,
Harmonia,
Sly & The Family Stone,
KRS-One,
Ultra Naté,
Sparks,
Crooked Eye,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Vainqueur,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Hardrive,
Rapeman,
The Evens,
Crash Course in Science,
Minny Pops,
Robert Hood,
The Smoke,
Danielle Patucci,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Icehouse,
The Knickerbockers,
Pet Shop Boys,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
U.S. Maple,
Juan Atkins,
Stiv Bators,
Mary Jane Girls,
Angry Samoans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.