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 Togo and from Spokane.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sonny Sharrock to the funk 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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
The Fugs,
Skriet,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Moebius,
Urselle,
Minny Pops,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gang of Four,
Cheater Slicks,
Magma,
Althea and Donna,
Jacob Miller,
Half Japanese,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Crime,
David Bowie,
Lou Reed,
Terry Callier,
James Chance & The Contortions,
In Retrospect,
Sparks,
Boz Scaggs,
The Real Kids,
Duran Duran,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Dead C,
Patti Smith,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Move,
Chrome,
Masters at Work,
John Lydon,
Judy Mowatt,
Susan Cadogan,
Stetsasonic,
Man Eating Sloth,
Iggy Pop,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Maleditus Sound,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
the Normal,
Oblivians,
Avey Tare,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Mr. Review,
Camouflage,
Amon Düül,
Gabor Szabo,
Popol Vuh,
DNA,
Pylon,
Model 500,
Newcleus,
PIL, PIL, PIL, PIL.
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.