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 Tajikistan and from Philadelphia.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Bobby Womack to the disco 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 Kings Of Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Young Marble Giants,
Mo-Dettes,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Associates,
Bauhaus,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rufus Thomas,
Pulsallama,
Flamin' Groovies,
Gang Gang Dance,
Swans,
Lou Christie,
Magma,
Morten Harket,
Lebanon Hanover,
Hot Snakes,
Kerrie Biddell,
Crooked Eye,
Aloha Tigers,
Public Enemy,
Mantronix,
The Neon Judgement,
Toni Rubio,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Fire Engines,
Pylon,
Zero Boys,
Ponytail,
Section 25,
Colin Newman,
Joe Finger,
Crime,
Barrington Levy,
Yazoo,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Eli Mardock,
Soft Machine,
The Blackbyrds,
China Crisis,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Gap Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joy Division,
Black Sheep,
Hashim,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Offenders,
Scientists,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Peter and Kerry,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
JFA,
Fela Kuti,
Blake Baxter,
Jandek,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Eric Dolphy,
Essential Logic,
KRS-One,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.