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 Ivory Coast and from Houston.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Maurizio to the techno 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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All Gang Green tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Remains 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 an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes 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?
Joy Division,
The Fuzztones,
Eden Ahbez,
Alison Limerick,
R.M.O.,
Rhythm & Sound,
AZ,
Gichy Dan,
Q65,
Public Enemy,
Ken Boothe,
One Last Wish,
U.S. Maple,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Hashim,
MC5,
Amon Düül,
Rekid,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Doors,
Lyres,
The Sonics,
Gastr Del Sol,
Mission of Burma,
Lalann,
The Dead C,
Fugazi,
A Certain Ratio,
Sound Behaviour,
48th St. Collective,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Nico,
Robert Wyatt,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bad Manners,
Depeche Mode,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sexual Harrassment,
Altered Images,
The Music Machine,
Connie Case,
Half Japanese,
Wings,
Visage,
Black Pus,
Cheater Slicks,
Joe Finger,
Curtis Mayfield,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Bar-Kays,
Livin' Joy,
Oblivians,
Bobby Sherman,
Susan Cadogan,
Matthew Bourne,
the Slits,
Accadde A,
Thee Headcoats,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.