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 Ireland and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Gang of Four to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
Radio Birdman,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bobby Womack,
Kayak,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Alarm Clocks,
Whodini,
Ossler,
Prince Buster,
Camouflage,
Cybotron,
Kevin Saunderson,
Eden Ahbez,
Public Enemy,
Eli Mardock,
Index,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ornette Coleman,
Lakeside,
Clear Light,
Yaz,
Fear,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Au Pairs,
The Index,
Agitation Free,
Visage,
Derrick May,
Kool Moe Dee,
Soulsonic Force,
Boredoms,
Con Funk Shun,
Eddi Front,
Slick Rick,
Sparks,
Sixth Finger,
Pantaleimon,
Black Moon,
Jerry's Kids,
Lucky Dragons,
EPMD,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Janne Schatter,
Excepter,
Robert Görl,
Rotary Connection,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Connie Case,
Davy DMX,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Raincoats,
Warsaw,
Arcadia,
Neu!,
Surgeon,
Eurythmics,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gabor Szabo,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.