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 Iran and from Delhi.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Minor Threat to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Cure. All the underground hits.
All Liaisons Dangereuses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brick,
Arab on Radar,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bluetip,
Average White Band,
Intrusion,
Black Bananas,
Dawn Penn,
Lou Christie,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pylon,
Swell Maps,
Black Flag,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Groovy Waters,
Johnny Clarke,
Loose Ends,
Marc Almond,
CMW,
Duran Duran,
Gerry Rafferty,
Whodini,
Don Cherry,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Godley & Creme,
Clear Light,
Infiniti,
Sparks,
Grandmaster Flash,
Saccharine Trust,
The Doobie Brothers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Angry Samoans,
June of 44,
Joey Negro,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Idris Muhammad,
Derrick May,
The Mojo Men,
Radiohead,
Ice-T,
Avey Tare,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Soft Cell,
Kaleidoscope,
Alton Ellis,
The Trojans,
Davy DMX,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Amazonics,
John Coltrane,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Joyce Sims,
Patti Smith,
Mark Hollis,
PIL,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.