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 Croatia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Royal Trux to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pere Ubu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fad Gadget,
X-101,
Soft Machine,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sound Behaviour,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Magazine,
Janne Schatter,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Quadrant,
Avey Tare,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Severed Heads,
Hasil Adkins,
The Black Dice,
Jacob Miller,
The Doors,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fire Engines,
Marvin Gaye,
Alison Limerick,
Ten City,
Rakim,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Rosa Yemen,
The Misunderstood,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bobby Womack,
Arthur Verocai,
Pagans,
Quando Quango,
Trumans Water,
Duran Duran,
Glenn Branca,
Suicide,
Jawbox,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Parry Music,
Charles Mingus,
Ultimate Spinach,
Gregory Isaacs,
L. Decosne,
Mr. Review,
The Leaves,
Ponytail,
The Offenders,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pharoah Sanders,
Hardrive,
The Walker Brothers,
The Cramps,
Malaria!,
The Mighty Diamonds,
48th St. Collective,
Eli Mardock,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Slick Rick,
Average White Band,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
R.M.O.,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson.
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.