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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Manchester.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Peter & Gordon to the rap 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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a These Immortal Souls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mummies,
Laurel Aitken,
the Association,
Saccharine Trust,
Nation of Ulysses,
John Holt,
X-Ray Spex,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Soft Machine,
Joensuu 1685,
Al Stewart,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Brand Nubian,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Thee Headcoats,
Rufus Thomas,
Dorothy Ashby,
Public Image Ltd.,
Loose Ends,
Kas Product,
Gil Scott Heron,
Surgeon,
10cc,
Jawbox,
Faust,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jeru the Damaja,
Todd Terry,
Pantytec,
Audionom,
JFA,
The Toasters,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Roy Ayers,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Chris Corsano,
Unwound,
The Gladiators,
Los Fastidios,
Suicide,
James White and The Blacks,
Skriet,
Moby Grape,
Scan 7,
Grandmaster Flash,
Marcia Griffiths,
DNA,
Eve St. Jones,
The United States of America,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Vogues,
Alphaville,
Blancmange,
Gang Starr,
Malaria!,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Grey Daturas,
Scrapy,
Ten City,
Gabor Szabo,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.