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 Cape Verde and from Tokyo.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Radio Birdman to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Larry & the Blue Notes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Associates,
The Monochrome Set,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lebanon Hanover,
Talk Talk,
T.S.O.L.,
Supertramp,
Sun Ra,
T. Rex,
Little Man,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Au Pairs,
MDC,
Eddi Front,
Symarip,
The Victims,
Ludus,
Roxette,
The Knickerbockers,
Matthew Halsall,
Camberwell Now,
Zapp,
Flipper,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Alarm Clocks,
Newcleus,
John Holt,
Bizarre Inc.,
Porter Ricks,
Danielle Patucci,
The Moody Blues,
The Slits,
Make Up,
Duran Duran,
Suicide,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Chris & Cosey,
David Axelrod,
Television Personalities,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sonic Youth,
The Names,
Oblivians,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Fuzztones,
Mandrill,
Spoonie Gee,
Barclay James Harvest,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Dead Boys,
Oneida,
Model 500,
Anakelly,
Can,
Mad Mike,
The Fortunes,
Cameo,
Lucky Dragons,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.