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 Sweden and from Milan.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 oboe 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 Zapp to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Byron Stingily. All the underground hits.
All LL Cool J tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Henry Cow,
Japan,
The Moleskins,
Yazoo,
Lou Christie,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Tomorrow,
Alison Limerick,
Laurel Aitken,
CMW,
Kayak,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Oblivians,
The Fugs,
Anakelly,
X-102,
Marmalade,
The Toasters,
Ornette Coleman,
Massinfluence,
Marcia Griffiths,
U.S. Maple,
Main Source,
The Skatalites,
X-101,
The Grass Roots,
Moss Icon,
Scratch Acid,
T.S.O.L.,
Kurtis Blow,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Kas Product,
The Misunderstood,
Terry Callier,
Angry Samoans,
The Blues Magoos,
Cal Tjader,
Shuggie Otis,
Talk Talk,
Brand Nubian,
Warsaw,
Black Flag,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Heaven 17,
Marshall Jefferson,
Marine Girls,
The Smiths,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Suburban Knight,
Model 500,
The Angels of Light,
MC5,
The Names,
Audionom,
Interpol,
FM Einheit,
Can,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O..
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.