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 Saudi Arabia and from Columbus.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 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 Soul II Soul to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Grey Daturas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fortunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sonics,
Banda Bassotti,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Pretty Things,
Slave,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Steve Hackett,
Gerry Rafferty,
Davy DMX,
Lungfish,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Wake,
Gabor Szabo,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lalo Schifrin,
Danielle Patucci,
Black Flag,
Con Funk Shun,
Mark Hollis,
The Count Five,
Scott Walker,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Hasil Adkins,
Nico,
Kool Moe Dee,
X-101,
Zapp,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Television,
Mantronix,
China Crisis,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kas Product,
Kerri Chandler,
Pylon,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sugar Minott,
Minutemen,
Neil Young,
The Young Rascals,
Y Pants,
The Happenings,
Lee Hazlewood,
Don Cherry,
The Zeros,
Rapeman,
Harmonia,
Todd Terry,
Cybotron,
MDC,
Pagans,
Camberwell Now,
Stiv Bators,
Sex Pistols,
Sixth Finger,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Delta 5,
Zero Boys,
Judy Mowatt,
the Normal, the Normal, the Normal, the Normal.
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.