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 Singapore and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
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 Massinfluence to the dance 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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All Public Image Ltd. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Suburban Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
Technova,
Pussy Galore,
Quadrant,
Nils Olav,
Ludus,
Siglo XX,
Peter and Kerry,
The Beau Brummels,
Tres Demented,
Outsiders,
MDC,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Move,
The Electric Prunes,
Kas Product,
Susan Cadogan,
The Black Dice,
Severed Heads,
Prince Buster,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Todd Rundgren,
Danielle Patucci,
Drive Like Jehu,
Black Bananas,
The Cure,
Jeff Lynne,
The Victims,
Spandau Ballet,
Kerri Chandler,
Moebius,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Blackbyrds,
James Chance & The Contortions,
the Swans,
PIL,
The Slits,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Procol Harum,
Pantaleimon,
Aloha Tigers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
FM Einheit,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Crooked Eye,
Rakim,
Trumans Water,
Altered Images,
Sparks,
Ponytail,
Michelle Simonal,
Average White Band,
The Sonics,
Lower 48,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
John Holt,
Pylon,
Peter & Gordon,
the Human League,
Model 500,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.