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 Eritrea and from Toronto.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Lalann to the techno 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 The Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Patti Smith 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Y Pants,
Pylon,
Royal Trux,
Camberwell Now,
Von Mondo,
The Barracudas,
Blake Baxter,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ronan,
Joe Finger,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Trumans Water,
Sound Behaviour,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Skaos,
Lower 48,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ice-T,
Eden Ahbez,
Second Layer,
The Cowsills,
F. McDonald,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Agent Orange,
Erasure,
Bobbi Humphrey,
John Foxx,
Urselle,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Public Enemy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Velvet Underground,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Angry Samoans,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Minny Pops,
Crooked Eye,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
DJ Sneak,
Symarip,
Sarah Menescal,
Tommy Roe,
Ornette Coleman,
Donald Byrd,
Roger Hodgson,
Kool Moe Dee,
Thompson Twins,
Eric Dolphy,
Fat Boys,
Hardrive,
The Divine Comedy,
Metal Thangz,
Black Flag,
The Buckinghams,
Animal Collective,
Robert Wyatt,
Rakim,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond.
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.