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 Dominica and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 clarinet 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the electroclash 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 Television Personalities. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Royal Trux 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mandrill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dirtbombs,
Mark Hollis,
Average White Band,
The Martian,
Silicon Teens,
Swell Maps,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Joensuu 1685,
Aural Exciters,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bobby Sherman,
The Walker Brothers,
Harmonia,
Black Bananas,
Bootsy Collins,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lindisfarne,
Yusef Lateef,
Pantytec,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Matthew Bourne,
Wally Richardson,
The Young Rascals,
The Slits,
Jesper Dahlback,
Todd Terry,
Symarip,
Pussy Galore,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Animal Collective,
John Holt,
Anakelly,
The Move,
Bill Wells,
Stereo Dub,
The Dead C,
Zero Boys,
Fad Gadget,
Blancmange,
The Knickerbockers,
Judy Mowatt,
The Cowsills,
Jacob Miller,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Gong,
Absolute Body Control,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sam Rivers,
The Count Five,
The Real Kids,
Gil Scott Heron,
Q and Not U,
The United States of America,
Soft Cell,
John Cale,
Ken Boothe,
K-Klass,
The Durutti Column,
Camouflage,
Ludus,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.