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 Uganda and from Cairo.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Drive Like Jehu to the punk 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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
T.S.O.L.,
Section 25,
Reagan Youth,
The Associates,
Eric Dolphy,
Peter & Gordon,
Animal Collective,
Althea and Donna,
Rakim,
These Immortal Souls,
Sixth Finger,
Pagans,
Shuggie Otis,
Anakelly,
Gong,
The Alarm Clocks,
Kerri Chandler,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Stetsasonic,
Eve St. Jones,
EPMD,
The Smoke,
The Neon Judgement,
Monolake,
Mark Hollis,
Bronski Beat,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
the Normal,
Eurythmics,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lou Christie,
Deepchord,
Marvin Gaye,
Ultra Naté,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Model 500,
Kayak,
Hashim,
Blancmange,
The Barracudas,
The Pretty Things,
The Blues Magoos,
Yellowson,
Hardrive,
Wasted Youth,
The Cure,
Davy DMX,
Symarip,
The Count Five,
Mars,
Q and Not U,
Moby Grape,
The Names,
MDC,
R.M.O.,
Maurizio,
Rod Modell,
Scrapy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Kinks,
Blake Baxter,
Thompson Twins,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.