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 Mali and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 theremin 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 Youth Brigade to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Rekid. All the underground hits.
All Gang Gang Dance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eyeless In Gaza 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 spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kurtis Blow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sly & The Family Stone,
Camberwell Now,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joensuu 1685,
Warren Ellis,
Guru Guru,
Johnny Osbourne,
CMW,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
H. Thieme,
Junior Murvin,
Jerry's Kids,
Brothers Johnson,
The Gap Band,
Eli Mardock,
The Searchers,
Moebius,
Ludus,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Arab on Radar,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Iggy Pop,
Agent Orange,
Warsaw,
The Busters,
Rekid,
Roy Ayers,
Sex Pistols,
Barry Ungar,
The Raincoats,
Excepter,
The Neon Judgement,
Cymande,
Pulsallama,
Maurizio,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Icehouse,
A Certain Ratio,
The Doobie Brothers,
One Last Wish,
Laurel Aitken,
kango's stein massive,
Alison Limerick,
Joyce Sims,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ituana,
Masters at Work,
Ice-T,
Grey Daturas,
Ponytail,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
48th St. Collective,
PIL,
D'Angelo,
Soft Machine,
Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler.
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.