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 Marshall Islands and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 güiro 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 Danielle Patucci to the crunk 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 The Red Krayola. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every kango's stein massive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Ossler,
The Fugs,
Joyce Sims,
Pole,
In Retrospect,
Grey Daturas,
The Cowsills,
Robert Wyatt,
Piero Umiliani,
Aural Exciters,
The Cure,
Dennis Brown,
The Dave Clark Five,
Rosa Yemen,
Pantytec,
The Residents,
The Evens,
Donald Byrd,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pulsallama,
The Grass Roots,
Hoover,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Television Personalities,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Suicide,
The Misunderstood,
Steve Hackett,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
ABC,
Pantaleimon,
Neu!,
The Techniques,
Pere Ubu,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Seeds,
Sam Rivers,
CMW,
Eddi Front,
Gang Gang Dance,
Goldenarms,
Jimmy McGriff,
Patti Smith,
John Foxx,
Black Flag,
The Birthday Party,
Gerry Rafferty,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Terrestrial Tones,
Reagan Youth,
Fat Boys,
Public Image Ltd.,
Second Layer,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Smoke,
Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott.
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.