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 Andorra and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bush Tetras to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bush Tetras record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Enemy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jacob Miller,
Alton Ellis,
The Red Krayola,
R.M.O.,
the Sonics,
Underground Resistance,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Stockholm Monsters,
Toni Rubio,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Cybotron,
Barry Ungar,
Gastr Del Sol,
Eric Copeland,
The Monks,
The Human League,
The Fugs,
The Velvet Underground,
The Buckinghams,
Lalann,
T.S.O.L.,
Skarface,
Aaron Thompson,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rakim,
Roger Hodgson,
The Five Americans,
The Skatalites,
Absolute Body Control,
Altered Images,
Eddi Front,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lou Christie,
CMW,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Yazoo,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Sisters of Mercy,
cv313,
the Germs,
The Techniques,
Dark Day,
Eric B and Rakim,
Swans,
The Sonics,
the Slits,
Amon Düül,
The Motions,
Jacques Brel,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Mars,
Minor Threat,
Gang Gang Dance,
These Immortal Souls,
Pole,
Freddie Wadling,
Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer.
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.