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 Haiti and from Beijing.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
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 the Association to the dance 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Vainqueur,
Matthew Halsall,
Gabor Szabo,
Fugazi,
Black Flag,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Thee Headcoats,
The Blues Magoos,
Electric Prunes,
Sound Behaviour,
10cc,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Morten Harket,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lightning Bolt,
The Last Poets,
The Associates,
Interpol,
DNA,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Roxy Music,
Sex Pistols,
the Sonics,
Babytalk,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Velvet Underground,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Neu!,
Sexual Harrassment,
AZ,
the Swans,
Peter and Kerry,
Crooked Eye,
Blossom Toes,
The Trojans,
The Residents,
Technova,
Bronski Beat,
Q65,
Main Source,
Icehouse,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Neon Judgement,
Scion,
Agitation Free,
The Blackbyrds,
Lungfish,
The Seeds,
Franke,
New Order,
Bob Dylan,
Sarah Menescal,
Johnny Clarke,
A Certain Ratio,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.