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 Marshall Islands and from Sao Paulo.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Sällskapet to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
China Crisis,
The Fire Engines,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Wire,
A Certain Ratio,
Boogie Down Productions,
Marvin Gaye,
Jandek,
Heaven 17,
Kayak,
Ken Boothe,
Gong,
Stiv Bators,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Radio Birdman,
Eurythmics,
Lakeside,
The Martian,
Alison Limerick,
Angry Samoans,
the Slits,
The Stooges,
The Mummies,
Pussy Galore,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Moody Blues,
Matthew Halsall,
Hoover,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Black Moon,
Marcia Griffiths,
B.T. Express,
The Vogues,
The Index,
Japan,
Iggy Pop,
Dead Boys,
Mo-Dettes,
Kas Product,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Yellowson,
Fear,
Dave Gahan,
JFA,
The Knickerbockers,
Boz Scaggs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Babytalk,
Byron Stingily,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Wally Richardson,
Ultimate Spinach,
Anakelly,
Tomorrow,
Sugar Minott,
The Star Department,
Intrusion,
Don Cherry,
Funky Four + One,
The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths.
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.