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 Turkey and from Jakarta.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the oboe 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 Glambeats Corp. 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All Barbara Tucker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
LL Cool J,
Morten Harket,
Anthony Braxton,
Junior Murvin,
Skriet,
John Foxx,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Malaria!,
Ronnie Foster,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Amazonics,
Angry Samoans,
The Trojans,
Accadde A,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bill Near,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
DJ Style,
Buzzcocks,
Guru Guru,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Zeros,
Drexciya,
The Fugs,
The Vogues,
Oneida,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rakim,
Dead Boys,
Soft Machine,
Mo-Dettes,
Bobby Sherman,
The Seeds,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ohio Players,
Erasure,
Crispian St. Peters,
Thompson Twins,
The Toasters,
The Shadows of Knight,
ABC,
The Cure,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Siglo XX,
Von Mondo,
Intrusion,
the Germs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Monks,
Reuben Wilson,
Steve Hackett,
The Neon Judgement,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sällskapet,
Lalann,
Unwound,
Goldenarms,
Grauzone,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.