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 Maldives and from Toronto.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Bremen.
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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the guitar 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 Desert Stars to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Eve St. Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Loose Ends record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cluster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Bizarre Inc.,
Scrapy,
Black Pus,
Visage,
Crash Course in Science,
Subhumans,
Bill Near,
The Monochrome Set,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Tim Buckley,
Mary Jane Girls,
OOIOO,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Gladiators,
John Foxx,
Lou Christie,
The Human League,
Delta 5,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Minnie Riperton,
Stereo Dub,
The Barracudas,
The Gap Band,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Happenings,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sixth Finger,
Eddi Front,
Joy Division,
Black Sheep,
Q and Not U,
Anakelly,
Gerry Rafferty,
the Sonics,
The Zeros,
DJ Style,
Black Moon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pierre Henry,
Pharoah Sanders,
Cameo,
Hot Snakes,
Sonic Youth,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Slick Rick,
The Pop Group,
Ornette Coleman,
Dark Day,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lindisfarne,
Freddie Wadling,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ronan,
The Cowsills,
E-Dancer,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.