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 Korea North and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 harpsichord 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 Second Layer to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gerry Rafferty record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer 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 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Steve Hackett,
The Barracudas,
Minutemen,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Basic Channel,
John Cale,
Pantytec,
Yaz,
Piero Umiliani,
Ponytail,
Oblivians,
Don Cherry,
The Angels of Light,
The Last Poets,
Reuben Wilson,
Tears for Fears,
Kaleidoscope,
Erasure,
Aswad,
Mo-Dettes,
Deepchord,
Albert Ayler,
The Dead C,
Surgeon,
Nik Kershaw,
Derrick May,
Desert Stars,
Wire,
the Association,
The Neon Judgement,
The Gun Club,
Dark Day,
The Motions,
Wasted Youth,
CMW,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sonny Sharrock,
Fat Boys,
The Fire Engines,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Man Parrish,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Soft Cell,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Von Mondo,
Ronnie Foster,
The Moleskins,
Duran Duran,
JFA,
Juan Atkins,
Laurel Aitken,
Soulsonic Force,
Pagans,
Scratch Acid,
Jerry's Kids,
The Slackers,
Intrusion,
Groovy Waters,
Fear,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mars, Mars, Mars, Mars.
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.