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 Lebanon and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 Taipei and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Buckinghams to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Barclay James Harvest. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fire Engines,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bob Dylan,
John Cale,
Maleditus Sound,
Monolake,
Camberwell Now,
Quantec,
Infiniti,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jacques Brel,
Maurizio,
Angry Samoans,
The Kinks,
Peter and Kerry,
Jandek,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Gun Club,
Faraquet,
Pole,
Duran Duran,
Erasure,
Man Parrish,
Minny Pops,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Schoolly D,
The Leaves,
Au Pairs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Misunderstood,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lower 48,
Dennis Brown,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Grass Roots,
Black Pus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bobby Womack,
Basic Channel,
Pantaleimon,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Fad Gadget,
The Remains,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cecil Taylor,
New Order,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
UT,
the Human League,
The Angels of Light,
DJ Style,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Cybotron,
Organ,
Inner City,
The Slits,
Graham Central Station,
The Busters,
Shuggie Otis,
the Swans, the Swans, the Swans, the Swans.
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.