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 Toronto.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Count Five to the electroclash 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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barclay James Harvest record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Move,
Boz Scaggs,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jeff Mills,
Talk Talk,
EPMD,
Black Flag,
New Order,
This Heat,
Technova,
Gang Gang Dance,
Pussy Galore,
The Smiths,
Monks,
Tears for Fears,
Blossom Toes,
Heaven 17,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
These Immortal Souls,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Glenn Branca,
Brass Construction,
Theoretical Girls,
Joyce Sims,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
cv313,
X-102,
Tommy Roe,
Warsaw,
Sandy B,
Davy DMX,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Todd Rundgren,
Deakin,
Max Romeo,
Idris Muhammad,
Derrick May,
Ten City,
Ronan,
U.S. Maple,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sight & Sound,
The Seeds,
Gang Green,
Fela Kuti,
Radiohead,
Make Up,
Lucky Dragons,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Visage,
Spandau Ballet,
Q65,
Essential Logic,
MC5,
World's Most,
Pagans,
Amazonics,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.