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 Finland and from Calgary.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Slave to the punk 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 Popol Vuh. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young & Crazy Horse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Metal Thangz,
Flipper,
Section 25,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sparks,
Icehouse,
Todd Rundgren,
The Last Poets,
AZ,
Moss Icon,
Grey Daturas,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Music Machine,
Skarface,
Mission of Burma,
Warren Ellis,
Easy Going,
Joensuu 1685,
Nirvana,
Josef K,
Pharoah Sanders,
Livin' Joy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bizarre Inc.,
LL Cool J,
Circle Jerks,
Lightning Bolt,
Animal Collective,
The Buckinghams,
Byron Stingily,
Matthew Halsall,
Bobby Womack,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sonic Youth,
Von Mondo,
The Golliwogs,
The Gories,
Ice-T,
The Residents,
Aural Exciters,
Sister Nancy,
Crooked Eye,
Rhythm & Sound,
New Age Steppers,
Kaleidoscope,
The Raincoats,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
New York Dolls,
Sight & Sound,
Saccharine Trust,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Vainqueur,
Scott Walker,
The Offenders,
Chris Corsano,
Rotary Connection,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.