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 Guyana and from Cairo.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Ronan to the funk 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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All June Days 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 grunge 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 a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Easy Going,
Subhumans,
Aural Exciters,
Schoolly D,
Yazoo,
Soul II Soul,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Black Moon,
Gang Starr,
Marmalade,
Sam Rivers,
Black Sheep,
Godley & Creme,
Symarip,
Lee Hazlewood,
Brothers Johnson,
Graham Central Station,
The Searchers,
The Motions,
Soft Machine,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Metal Thangz,
Spandau Ballet,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Skriet,
The Fuzztones,
Isaac Hayes,
Kevin Saunderson,
Joy Division,
Harry Pussy,
Ohio Players,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Prince Buster,
Sister Nancy,
The Smoke,
Slave,
Jerry's Kids,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pylon,
Kerri Chandler,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Blues Magoos,
the Sonics,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Matthew Halsall,
A Flock of Seagulls,
AZ,
Stockholm Monsters,
Moebius,
Bronski Beat,
Pole,
Grey Daturas,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Reagan Youth,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Radiohead,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Interpol,
Infiniti,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Agent Orange,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.