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 Netherlands and from Hong Kong.
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 Calgary and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Delon & Dalcan to the grime 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 Newcleus. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Subhumans,
New Order,
Nik Kershaw,
Man Parrish,
The Knickerbockers,
Main Source,
The Gun Club,
MDC,
Shuggie Otis,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cymande,
Flash Fearless,
Spandau Ballet,
Al Stewart,
Mantronix,
Albert Ayler,
Lakeside,
Outsiders,
Drive Like Jehu,
Motorama,
Kurtis Blow,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sugar Minott,
The Monochrome Set,
Moss Icon,
Steve Hackett,
Television,
The Modern Lovers,
Darondo,
Eurythmics,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Offenders,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Drexciya,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Doors,
Ossler,
Sex Pistols,
Television Personalities,
The Busters,
Japan,
Lou Christie,
Brick,
Iggy Pop,
Wally Richardson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ituana,
Skaos,
The Dead C,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Zero Boys,
L. Decosne,
Nick Fraelich,
Eric Dolphy,
Stereo Dub,
Aswad,
The Stooges,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
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.