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 and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 linndrum 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 The Gun Club to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Crash Course in Science. All the underground hits.
All Eli Mardock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Manfred Mann's Earth Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DNA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barclay James Harvest,
Oneida,
Kerri Chandler,
Al Stewart,
Groovy Waters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
These Immortal Souls,
Cheater Slicks,
The Wake,
Arcadia,
Bauhaus,
Ituana,
Average White Band,
Outsiders,
The Grass Roots,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rapeman,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marmalade,
Mandrill,
Scientists,
Marine Girls,
Gastr Del Sol,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Half Japanese,
Traffic Nightmare,
R.M.O.,
The Blackbyrds,
Jacques Brel,
The Trojans,
Rufus Thomas,
Animal Collective,
One Last Wish,
Theoretical Girls,
Ponytail,
Colin Newman,
The Standells,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Guru Guru,
Excepter,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Boz Scaggs,
June of 44,
Pantytec,
Unwound,
Alton Ellis,
Young Marble Giants,
Visage,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Arthur Verocai,
Prince Buster,
Zapp,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Parry Music,
Dennis Brown,
Nico,
The Toasters,
Gong,
Glenn Branca,
The Mighty Diamonds,
John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon.
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.