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 Sudan and from Toronto.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Eyeless In Gaza to the grunge 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 Anthony Braxton. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dead Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABC,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Young Marble Giants,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Skriet,
The Music Machine,
Masters at Work,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sister Nancy,
The Golliwogs,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
MC5,
Patti Smith,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
China Crisis,
Lyres,
The Modern Lovers,
Archie Shepp,
Joyce Sims,
Radiohead,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bobby Womack,
The Grass Roots,
Country Teasers,
The Cramps,
Model 500,
Niagra,
Jandek,
Vainqueur,
The Associates,
The Index,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gang of Four,
Brick,
Lebanon Hanover,
Scott Walker,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Robert Hood,
Nico,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Joensuu 1685,
Vladislav Delay,
Michelle Simonal,
The Searchers,
H. Thieme,
Bobby Sherman,
Sonic Youth,
a-ha,
Todd Rundgren,
Sparks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Popol Vuh,
Gerry Rafferty,
Von Mondo,
Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama.
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.