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 Qatar and from Paris.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Massinfluence to the electroclash 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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All T. Rex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacques Brel,
Cameo,
Wire,
Saccharine Trust,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Invisible,
Flash Fearless,
Peter and Kerry,
Wasted Youth,
D'Angelo,
Agitation Free,
Patti Smith,
Radiohead,
T.S.O.L.,
Television Personalities,
Roxy Music,
Quadrant,
The Gap Band,
E-Dancer,
Au Pairs,
Soulsonic Force,
The Tremeloes,
Robert Hood,
Scott Walker,
Lindisfarne,
These Immortal Souls,
The Raincoats,
MDC,
The Doors,
Terrestrial Tones,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sly & The Family Stone,
In Retrospect,
Massinfluence,
Tom Boy,
Marvin Gaye,
CMW,
June Days,
Brick,
F. McDonald,
The Litter,
Eurythmics,
Joyce Sims,
AZ,
Ralphi Rosario,
Groovy Waters,
the Slits,
The Electric Prunes,
The Dave Clark Five,
Infiniti,
The Knickerbockers,
Mark Hollis,
The Fire Engines,
Warren Ellis,
Nas,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Camouflage,
Slick Rick,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Main Source,
Ultravox,
Faust, Faust, Faust, Faust.
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.