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 Oman and from Hong Kong.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 güiro 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the rock 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 Glambeats Corp.. All the underground hits.
All The United States of America tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every U.S. Maple 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
Althea and Donna,
Funkadelic,
Scott Walker,
Barclay James Harvest,
Television,
The Invisible,
Blossom Toes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Section 25,
The Angels of Light,
Colin Newman,
Anthony Braxton,
The Sonics,
Symarip,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sonic Youth,
Lungfish,
Desert Stars,
The Mojo Men,
Parry Music,
Eli Mardock,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Dual Sessions,
Mantronix,
Liliput,
Lalo Schifrin,
Aaron Thompson,
E-Dancer,
Mad Mike,
Faraquet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Absolute Body Control,
EPMD,
Brick,
Junior Murvin,
Oneida,
Half Japanese,
Radio Birdman,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Black Dice,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Patti Smith,
James White and The Blacks,
Lakeside,
Donald Byrd,
Alphaville,
Delta 5,
Danielle Patucci,
Tim Buckley,
Sight & Sound,
Dawn Penn,
UT,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Saints,
Rekid,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Marine Girls,
Gichy Dan,
Tom Boy,
Y Pants,
The Count Five,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.