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 Palau and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 David Axelrod to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
The Modern Lovers,
Public Enemy,
Blake Baxter,
Camouflage,
Sound Behaviour,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Faust,
Eric Dolphy,
Nik Kershaw,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Deadbeat,
Main Source,
Archie Shepp,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lee Hazlewood,
Alphaville,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Livin' Joy,
Robert Wyatt,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Brick,
Sam Rivers,
Hasil Adkins,
Eddi Front,
Ronan,
Sixth Finger,
Skaos,
The Move,
Maleditus Sound,
Stereo Dub,
Todd Rundgren,
The Human League,
Camberwell Now,
Lindisfarne,
Eli Mardock,
Metal Thangz,
Jeff Lynne,
Wings,
Shoche,
Mary Jane Girls,
Average White Band,
JFA,
CMW,
The Cramps,
Dave Gahan,
Supertramp,
R.M.O.,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Royal Trux,
Joe Finger,
Scion,
Whodini,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Brass Construction,
Minutemen,
Suicide,
Patti Smith,
The Raincoats,
The Black Dice,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.