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 the UAE and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Chrome to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Buzzcocks. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Althea and Donna,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Trumans Water,
Visage,
Nico,
Gichy Dan,
Adolescents,
Lou Christie,
The Index,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Schoolly D,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Alton Ellis,
the Sonics,
EPMD,
Dark Day,
The United States of America,
Basic Channel,
The Tremeloes,
The Angels of Light,
The Last Poets,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Second Layer,
Can,
Donald Byrd,
The Fugs,
MDC,
Panda Bear,
U.S. Maple,
The Cure,
Negative Approach,
Lakeside,
China Crisis,
Swans,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Marine Girls,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Youth Brigade,
Drexciya,
Slave,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Howard Jones,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Toni Rubio,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ornette Coleman,
The Zeros,
John Coltrane,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Dave Gahan,
The Durutti Column,
La Düsseldorf,
Soulsonic Force,
Davy DMX,
Brothers Johnson,
Simply Red,
Gang of Four,
Average White Band,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.