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 Uganda and from Woodstock.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Hong Kong.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Boz Scaggs 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 Davy DMX. All the underground hits.
All The Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mo-Dettes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Nick Fraelich,
The Searchers,
Little Man,
Barbara Tucker,
Sun Ra,
Scientists,
The Beau Brummels,
Kas Product,
Von Mondo,
Girls At Our Best!,
Flash Fearless,
Sex Pistols,
Gabor Szabo,
LL Cool J,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Delta 5,
Second Layer,
Todd Rundgren,
Agent Orange,
Whodini,
Ken Boothe,
Newcleus,
David Bowie,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Oblivians,
cv313,
Negative Approach,
Kaleidoscope,
China Crisis,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Slave,
Nils Olav,
Eric B and Rakim,
Television Personalities,
The Velvet Underground,
Malaria!,
Buzzcocks,
Magazine,
The Five Americans,
Terrestrial Tones,
Talk Talk,
The Techniques,
The Kinks,
Aswad,
Marshall Jefferson,
Juan Atkins,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Black Dice,
Mars,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Reagan Youth,
Howard Jones,
Cheater Slicks,
Audionom,
Andrew Hill,
Amon Düül,
The Zeros,
Shuggie Otis,
The Busters, The Busters, The Busters, The Busters.
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.