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 Tunisia and from Shanghai.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grunge 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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gun Club 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mummies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
Spoonie Gee,
Avey Tare,
Mark Hollis,
Banda Bassotti,
The Sonics,
The New Christs,
Lower 48,
Mad Mike,
Barclay James Harvest,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Hot Snakes,
Pylon,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ronan,
Symarip,
Fela Kuti,
The Dirtbombs,
Jeff Lynne,
Dave Gahan,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Detroit Cobras,
Byron Stingily,
Desert Stars,
Jesper Dahlback,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Magazine,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sonic Youth,
Scrapy,
The Modern Lovers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Faraquet,
Kerri Chandler,
The Gap Band,
Ralphi Rosario,
X-101,
Sight & Sound,
Eddi Front,
The Red Krayola,
D'Angelo,
Adolescents,
Aswad,
The Fortunes,
Ohio Players,
The Wake,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Simply Red,
Mo-Dettes,
Max Romeo,
Tubeway Army,
The Move,
Flipper,
New York Dolls,
Wasted Youth,
Yaz,
Girls At Our Best!,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cybotron,
Stetsasonic,
The Fire Engines,
Cheater Slicks,
Josef K, Josef K, Josef K, Josef K.
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.