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 Cambodia and from Jakarta.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Jimmy McGriff to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Circle Jerks. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young & Crazy Horse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Gang Dance,
Index,
Matthew Halsall,
The Star Department,
Zero Boys,
Patti Smith,
Jacob Miller,
Japan,
The Cure,
Adolescents,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Porter Ricks,
Nas,
Ludus,
The Cowsills,
Suburban Knight,
Matthew Bourne,
The Zeros,
Toni Rubio,
The Litter,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Model 500,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Buckinghams,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Black Dice,
New Order,
Guru Guru,
Ultimate Spinach,
Anakelly,
Lou Christie,
Heaven 17,
Shuggie Otis,
Ronan,
Rod Modell,
Godley & Creme,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Agitation Free,
X-Ray Spex,
Symarip,
Quadrant,
The Smiths,
The Techniques,
Leonard Cohen,
Soulsonic Force,
Public Image Ltd.,
Saccharine Trust,
Alton Ellis,
X-102,
Curtis Mayfield,
Camberwell Now,
Aaron Thompson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Dead Boys,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Beau Brummels,
Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti.
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.