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 Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Cheater Slicks to the techno 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 Yellowson. All the underground hits.
All It's A Beautiful Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terror Squad Feat. Camron 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
Rites of Spring,
Boredoms,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Blancmange,
Yazoo,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sound Behaviour,
Patti Smith,
Symarip,
The Doors,
The Beau Brummels,
Derrick May,
Thee Headcoats,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Flipper,
Japan,
The J.B.'s,
Main Source,
Kaleidoscope,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Marine Girls,
The Last Poets,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Matthew Bourne,
PIL,
The Birthday Party,
Talk Talk,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Leonard Cohen,
Glambeats Corp.,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Blossom Toes,
The Durutti Column,
Procol Harum,
Minor Threat,
Aural Exciters,
Delta 5,
Warren Ellis,
Kerri Chandler,
Wolf Eyes,
The Sonics,
Donny Hathaway,
Rapeman,
The Buckinghams,
Soulsonic Force,
Sex Pistols,
Lower 48,
Kurtis Blow,
Aloha Tigers,
the Human League,
Joe Finger,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bob Dylan,
The Blackbyrds,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.