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 Gambia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 marimba 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 Jimmy McGriff to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cramps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Motorama,
Flamin' Groovies,
Fugazi,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Alton Ellis,
Ponytail,
Joensuu 1685,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Magazine,
Pantaleimon,
Danielle Patucci,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Dave Gahan,
Johnny Osbourne,
Second Layer,
Faust,
Roxette,
Agitation Free,
Delta 5,
Sandy B,
Gastr Del Sol,
Los Fastidios,
World's Most,
The Fuzztones,
The Knickerbockers,
Scrapy,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Connie Case,
Black Pus,
B.T. Express,
Sexual Harrassment,
Blancmange,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Robert Hood,
Jerry's Kids,
Symarip,
Trumans Water,
the Human League,
Sound Behaviour,
Underground Resistance,
Joy Division,
Marcia Griffiths,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Main Source,
Tubeway Army,
Amon Düül II,
Lungfish,
MDC,
The Electric Prunes,
The Smiths,
Eurythmics,
The Black Dice,
T.S.O.L.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Vogues,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Searchers,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.