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 Comoros and from Philadelphia.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 theremin 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 The Dead C to the disco 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All Bang On A Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cecil Taylor,
The Electric Prunes,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ultravox,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Nik Kershaw,
Scott Walker,
The Slackers,
Index,
The Searchers,
Robert Hood,
The Techniques,
Nation of Ulysses,
Amon Düül II,
Trumans Water,
Eli Mardock,
Al Stewart,
Fear,
Grauzone,
A Certain Ratio,
Neil Young,
Sight & Sound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brand Nubian,
The Barracudas,
Maurizio,
the Human League,
Mission of Burma,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
48th St. Collective,
Black Bananas,
H. Thieme,
K-Klass,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
10cc,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Deakin,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Swell Maps,
Circle Jerks,
Underground Resistance,
Black Flag,
Adolescents,
Reagan Youth,
Echospace,
Rekid,
Rapeman,
Clear Light,
Piero Umiliani,
Suburban Knight,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sister Nancy,
The Litter,
The Busters,
Lou Christie,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.