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 Botswana and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 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 Mandrill to the punk 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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All The Martian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Josef K,
The Walker Brothers,
Roger Hodgson,
Barrington Levy,
Talk Talk,
Interpol,
The Remains,
Fort Wilson Riot,
LL Cool J,
AZ,
Ice-T,
Lightning Bolt,
The Victims,
Echospace,
James White and The Blacks,
Quando Quango,
Dawn Penn,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Happenings,
The Invisible,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Schoolly D,
F. McDonald,
Gregory Isaacs,
June Days,
Slick Rick,
Agitation Free,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Joey Negro,
Crooked Eye,
Robert Hood,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Dead C,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Red Krayola,
Brass Construction,
The Fortunes,
Barbara Tucker,
Erasure,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Dark Day,
Black Bananas,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Gap Band,
The Barracudas,
The Neon Judgement,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Soul II Soul,
Nas,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Fatback Band,
The Vogues,
Ken Boothe,
Urselle,
Avey Tare,
Heaven 17,
Anakelly,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Terry Callier,
The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters.
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.