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 Azerbaijan and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Chris Corsano to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bang on a Can All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All Suicide tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dead C record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Motorama,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Simply Red,
The Leaves,
Basic Channel,
Easy Going,
Swans,
Ornette Coleman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
H. Thieme,
Supertramp,
Minny Pops,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Unwound,
Fad Gadget,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Pretty Things,
Idris Muhammad,
Wire,
The Zeros,
The Cowsills,
Nik Kershaw,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Liliput,
Barry Ungar,
Laurel Aitken,
Lightning Bolt,
The Move,
Arcadia,
The Blackbyrds,
Grey Daturas,
Avey Tare,
Von Mondo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Stooges,
The Red Krayola,
New Age Steppers,
Barclay James Harvest,
Isaac Hayes,
Rites of Spring,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
the Human League,
Matthew Bourne,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Zero Boys,
Procol Harum,
Crispy Ambulance,
Severed Heads,
Bizarre Inc.,
Tropical Tobacco,
Radio Birdman,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Standells,
Jacob Miller,
Wasted Youth,
Bob Dylan,
Roxy Music,
Fluxion,
The Evens,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.