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 Rwanda and from Copenhagen.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 David Bowie 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 Parry Music to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sam Rivers. All the underground hits.
All Lightning Bolt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Ossler,
The Fortunes,
The Neon Judgement,
Patti Smith,
The Motions,
Schoolly D,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Minnie Riperton,
The Slackers,
Byron Stingily,
John Cale,
The Trojans,
Pet Shop Boys,
Moss Icon,
Bluetip,
Magazine,
Lou Reed,
Peter & Gordon,
Monolake,
Electric Prunes,
10cc,
MDC,
the Normal,
JFA,
Newcleus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Moebius,
DJ Sneak,
Nirvana,
Pierre Henry,
Nico,
Essential Logic,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Infiniti,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Slick Rick,
Grey Daturas,
Skarface,
Audionom,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Beau Brummels,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Mantronix,
Reuben Wilson,
Television Personalities,
Easy Going,
X-101,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Stooges,
Goldenarms,
Gichy Dan,
Skaos,
Sound Behaviour,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sister Nancy,
The Associates,
Urselle,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
David McCallum,
Wire,
Andrew Hill,
Circle Jerks,
The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators.
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.