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 Bahamas and from Delhi.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Nik Kershaw. All the underground hits.
All the Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bush Tetras 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mandrill,
Joey Negro,
JFA,
Babytalk,
Inner City,
Suburban Knight,
CMW,
Chrome,
Mantronix,
Anakelly,
Rosa Yemen,
Marcia Griffiths,
Wasted Youth,
Guru Guru,
Quando Quango,
The Remains,
The Toasters,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pylon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Yazoo,
The Gladiators,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Aswad,
Symarip,
Prince Buster,
Ponytail,
Lungfish,
Rhythm & Sound,
Big Daddy Kane,
Average White Band,
Glenn Branca,
Little Man,
Sun Ra,
Godley & Creme,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bobby Sherman,
Niagra,
Model 500,
Gang of Four,
Infiniti,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Pretty Things,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bob Dylan,
Dark Day,
Delta 5,
Bizarre Inc.,
Darondo,
Alphaville,
Max Romeo,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Dirtbombs,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sound Behaviour,
Kenny Larkin,
Faraquet,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.