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 Armenia and from Hong Kong.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Seoul.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Gerry Rafferty to the punk 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 Public Image Ltd.. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yellowson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Dennis Brown,
Television Personalities,
cv313,
The Smiths,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Count Five,
Babytalk,
Hoover,
Ponytail,
The Residents,
The Real Kids,
Deepchord,
Blancmange,
Sight & Sound,
Chrome,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Alison Limerick,
Zero Boys,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Heaven 17,
Alphaville,
The Tremeloes,
Tomorrow,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hashim,
The Victims,
Wire,
Skarface,
Anakelly,
Unrelated Segments,
Reuben Wilson,
Ituana,
The Happenings,
Accadde A,
This Heat,
Howard Jones,
Sällskapet,
The Music Machine,
The Sonics,
the Normal,
DNA,
Sexual Harrassment,
Eric Copeland,
The Raincoats,
Aloha Tigers,
Echospace,
Television,
Frankie Knuckles,
Crooked Eye,
Nas,
Bob Dylan,
Cluster,
Kenny Larkin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Au Pairs,
Flipper,
Gang Starr,
Sonic Youth,
kango's stein massive,
Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle.
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.