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 Bhutan and from Houston.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Selecter. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Christie,
Mission of Burma,
T.S.O.L.,
Donald Byrd,
10cc,
The Star Department,
Von Mondo,
Lindisfarne,
Tres Demented,
Danielle Patucci,
Sonic Youth,
The Busters,
Ice-T,
E-Dancer,
Intrusion,
The Blackbyrds,
DJ Style,
Icehouse,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Fat Boys,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Velvet Underground,
Sight & Sound,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Fear,
Sun City Girls,
Nils Olav,
New York Dolls,
Camouflage,
Rosa Yemen,
Thompson Twins,
Excepter,
Kerri Chandler,
Ituana,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Basic Channel,
Accadde A,
The Durutti Column,
Bobby Byrd,
Anakelly,
The Beau Brummels,
Crispy Ambulance,
Marmalade,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Bar-Kays,
June of 44,
Pylon,
Soft Cell,
Joensuu 1685,
Kurtis Blow,
Skarface,
The Index,
Amazonics,
Max Romeo,
The Fuzztones,
The Young Rascals,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Toni Rubio,
Fad Gadget,
Barrington Levy,
Andrew Hill,
Michelle Simonal,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.