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 Hungary and from Cairo.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Tropical Tobacco to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Flamin' Groovies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Lydon,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Evens,
Sound Behaviour,
The Happenings,
Nation of Ulysses,
David Bowie,
Roxy Music,
Susan Cadogan,
Pantaleimon,
Godley & Creme,
Tim Buckley,
The Doors,
Altered Images,
Kayak,
Eric Copeland,
Davy DMX,
Main Source,
The Velvet Underground,
Section 25,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sight & Sound,
Deepchord,
New Age Steppers,
The Moody Blues,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Red Krayola,
Nas,
Amon Düül II,
Sun City Girls,
LL Cool J,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Massinfluence,
Malaria!,
Dave Gahan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
John Foxx,
Scott Walker,
Brothers Johnson,
Fear,
Pierre Henry,
Cecil Taylor,
Lou Christie,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Barracudas,
Q and Not U,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Anakelly,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Delon & Dalcan,
Intrusion,
Freddie Wadling,
Erykah Badu,
Desert Stars,
The Tremeloes,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
David McCallum,
Kenny Larkin,
the Normal,
Average White Band,
Sparks,
Crash Course in Science,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.