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 Hungary and from Lille.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the theremin 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 Banda Bassotti to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Buzzcocks. All the underground hits.
All John Foxx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Lindisfarne,
Eli Mardock,
The Red Krayola,
Joensuu 1685,
Kas Product,
The Black Dice,
Matthew Halsall,
Faust,
Bizarre Inc.,
Oblivians,
The Tremeloes,
Outsiders,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Amazonics,
Scratch Acid,
The Barracudas,
The Birthday Party,
Niagra,
Metal Thangz,
Massinfluence,
Patti Smith,
Bush Tetras,
Rhythm & Sound,
Soul Sonic Force,
Marshall Jefferson,
Royal Trux,
Talk Talk,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Groovy Waters,
Fatback Band,
The Walker Brothers,
a-ha,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sun Ra,
the Germs,
Lebanon Hanover,
In Retrospect,
Black Flag,
Aloha Tigers,
Eric Dolphy,
Vladislav Delay,
the Normal,
Shoche,
Stockholm Monsters,
Isaac Hayes,
Second Layer,
The Count Five,
Smog,
Chris & Cosey,
Brick,
The Cramps,
The Slackers,
Lee Hazlewood,
Eden Ahbez,
Gang Starr,
Bronski Beat,
Quando Quango,
Mantronix,
Animal Collective,
Scion, Scion, Scion, Scion.
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.