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 Guinea-Bissau and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Beijing.
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 arpeggiator 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tres Demented 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Martian,
Rites of Spring,
the Soft Cell,
Livin' Joy,
Warren Ellis,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ultra Naté,
Basic Channel,
The Saints,
Derrick May,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kevin Saunderson,
Nils Olav,
Tim Buckley,
Jeff Lynne,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
John Lydon,
Gang Gang Dance,
Flash Fearless,
The Vogues,
Laurel Aitken,
The Invisible,
Rakim,
The Selecter,
The Smoke,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Mandrill,
Gong,
Surgeon,
Underground Resistance,
The New Christs,
Cal Tjader,
The Smiths,
The Birthday Party,
Marvin Gaye,
Eric Dolphy,
Letta Mbulu,
Big Daddy Kane,
Shoche,
Section 25,
The Motions,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bluetip,
Peter & Gordon,
Aural Exciters,
The Techniques,
Howard Jones,
10cc,
Jacob Miller,
H. Thieme,
Charles Mingus,
Bill Near,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Stooges,
Crash Course in Science,
The Remains,
Inner City,
The Red Krayola,
Ludus,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.