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 Estonia and from Copenhagen.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Arab on Radar to the funk 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 The Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All The Beau Brummels tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Judy Mowatt,
John Foxx,
The Wake,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Velvet Underground,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kayak,
Delon & Dalcan,
Joyce Sims,
The Slackers,
The Kinks,
Anakelly,
The Seeds,
Essential Logic,
Fatback Band,
Crash Course in Science,
Erykah Badu,
Dual Sessions,
10cc,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mission of Burma,
Yusef Lateef,
Sound Behaviour,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
UT,
cv313,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kenny Larkin,
Audionom,
The Stooges,
China Crisis,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Motions,
Max Romeo,
Derrick May,
Curtis Mayfield,
the Sonics,
Silicon Teens,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Quando Quango,
Lungfish,
Desert Stars,
Newcleus,
Blake Baxter,
Marmalade,
Symarip,
Babytalk,
The Real Kids,
Jesper Dahlback,
Joy Division,
Accadde A,
The Smiths,
Grandmaster Flash,
Scratch Acid,
Gabor Szabo,
Alphaville,
New Order,
Girls At Our Best!,
KRS-One,
the Germs,
Thompson Twins,
The Moody Blues,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.