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 Iraq and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 theremin 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 The Evens to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Birthday Party. All the underground hits.
All The Seeds 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 grime 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 rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Guru Guru,
Easy Going,
The Music Machine,
Frankie Knuckles,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kurtis Blow,
Patti Smith,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sugar Minott,
June of 44,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Hardrive,
Aural Exciters,
Alton Ellis,
Section 25,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Animal Collective,
Skaos,
Rosa Yemen,
MC5,
Morten Harket,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Wally Richardson,
Thompson Twins,
Yusef Lateef,
Deakin,
kango's stein massive,
Sällskapet,
Eden Ahbez,
Derrick Morgan,
James White and The Blacks,
Anakelly,
The Flesh Eaters,
the Soft Cell,
Sight & Sound,
Goldenarms,
Marvin Gaye,
Sparks,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Basic Channel,
MDC,
The Real Kids,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Blake Baxter,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Count Five,
The Mojo Men,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Cure,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rufus Thomas,
Infiniti,
AZ,
Grey Daturas,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Janne Schatter,
Lou Reed,
June Days,
Procol Harum, Procol Harum, Procol Harum, Procol Harum.
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.