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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Bologna.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Normal to the punk 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 The Leaves. All the underground hits.
All The Barracudas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cosmic Jokers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a a-ha record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
Agitation Free,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Wings,
Gichy Dan,
Sugar Minott,
the Association,
Chris & Cosey,
The Fall,
The Star Department,
Franke,
Goldenarms,
Lower 48,
Symarip,
Nik Kershaw,
Cheater Slicks,
The Moleskins,
Loose Ends,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Brand Nubian,
The Remains,
X-102,
Underground Resistance,
Dawn Penn,
Clear Light,
Ice-T,
Moebius,
Mission of Burma,
Television,
The Motions,
Gang Starr,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Barclay James Harvest,
Frankie Knuckles,
Kerri Chandler,
Dark Day,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Aaron Thompson,
A Certain Ratio,
The Real Kids,
Steve Hackett,
Model 500,
Bobby Byrd,
Jawbox,
Tres Demented,
The Invisible,
The Angels of Light,
Colin Newman,
The Buckinghams,
The Barracudas,
The Residents,
Dead Boys,
Sarah Menescal,
The Fuzztones,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Oblivians,
Wasted Youth,
The Happenings,
Rakim,
Fugazi,
The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter.
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.