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 Thailand and from Philadelphia.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pere Ubu 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sparks,
Sonny Sharrock,
Skriet,
The Names,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bush Tetras,
The Offenders,
David McCallum,
Youth Brigade,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
DJ Sneak,
Aural Exciters,
Reuben Wilson,
Johnny Osbourne,
Vladislav Delay,
Massinfluence,
Shuggie Otis,
Bobby Byrd,
Isaac Hayes,
Monolake,
Severed Heads,
Joyce Sims,
Camberwell Now,
Rod Modell,
Judy Mowatt,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Funky Four + One,
Japan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Alice Coltrane,
Los Fastidios,
Intrusion,
The Grass Roots,
Fear,
Sällskapet,
the Swans,
Radiopuhelimet,
Eurythmics,
In Retrospect,
the Human League,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Gap Band,
Zero Boys,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Royal Trux,
CMW,
The Electric Prunes,
Charles Mingus,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Public Enemy,
Anthony Braxton,
Quadrant,
Pulsallama,
Rapeman,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Flipper,
Pantaleimon,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Barracudas,
Michelle Simonal,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.