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 Burkina 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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the punk 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 The Smiths. All the underground hits.
All Major Organ And The Adding Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pere Ubu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
Peter and Kerry,
The New Christs,
Tomorrow,
Johnny Clarke,
Stereo Dub,
Skriet,
Quantec,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Janne Schatter,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ludus,
Panda Bear,
Prince Buster,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Young Rascals,
Al Stewart,
Rod Modell,
Fluxion,
Matthew Halsall,
Suicide,
The Real Kids,
Gang Starr,
Jeff Mills,
Rekid,
Average White Band,
Crime,
Amon Düül,
Metal Thangz,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Iggy Pop,
Rites of Spring,
T. Rex,
The Happenings,
Judy Mowatt,
Michelle Simonal,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Zeros,
MC5,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Raincoats,
The Durutti Column,
Faraquet,
Terry Callier,
Sarah Menescal,
Thee Headcoats,
The Slits,
Erasure,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gichy Dan,
Funkadelic,
Ronan,
Can,
K-Klass,
Wings,
Marshall Jefferson,
Suburban Knight,
June Days,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Ultravox,
the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell.
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.