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 Guyana and from Manchester.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Leonard Cohen to the rap 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All Los Fastidios tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Barracudas 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 an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Adolescents,
The Music Machine,
The Black Dice,
The Dead C,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Talk Talk,
The Sound,
The Gap Band,
Ludus,
Tomorrow,
Excepter,
Blossom Toes,
Jeff Mills,
The Blackbyrds,
Gang Green,
Soft Machine,
Oblivians,
Kool Moe Dee,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Qualms,
DJ Sneak,
Anthony Braxton,
Dawn Penn,
Mad Mike,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deepchord,
Easy Going,
Sight & Sound,
the Normal,
Little Man,
Crooked Eye,
Lakeside,
Johnny Osbourne,
Crispian St. Peters,
Albert Ayler,
The Durutti Column,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Doobie Brothers,
the Germs,
Funkadelic,
Deakin,
Girls At Our Best!,
Nirvana,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lalann,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bill Near,
The Stooges,
Bobby Womack,
Cheater Slicks,
Lou Christie,
Grey Daturas,
Robert Görl,
Mandrill,
Cecil Taylor,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.