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 Luxembourg and from Hong Kong.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Cramps to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
LL Cool J,
R.M.O.,
Byron Stingily,
Gang of Four,
The Blues Magoos,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Barrington Levy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Darondo,
The Vogues,
Sonny Sharrock,
Youth Brigade,
Ronnie Foster,
Rosa Yemen,
The Victims,
EPMD,
Pierre Henry,
Soul II Soul,
Robert Wyatt,
Urselle,
Sonic Youth,
The Monochrome Set,
Minny Pops,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Walker Brothers,
Joey Negro,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gang Starr,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Grey Daturas,
Jacob Miller,
Fad Gadget,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Basic Channel,
Bizarre Inc.,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sandy B,
Audionom,
Prince Buster,
The Divine Comedy,
Whodini,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ohio Players,
Derrick May,
Average White Band,
The Misunderstood,
Porter Ricks,
In Retrospect,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sällskapet,
Unwound,
The Durutti Column,
Joe Smooth,
Ultimate Spinach,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.