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 Tunisia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 Calgary and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 sitar 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 Crispy Ambulance to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra Arkestra 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stiv Bators,
Youth Brigade,
Boogie Down Productions,
PIL,
Von Mondo,
cv313,
Michelle Simonal,
Moebius,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eli Mardock,
Public Image Ltd.,
Angry Samoans,
the Fania All-Stars,
Thompson Twins,
Eric Copeland,
Soft Cell,
The Count Five,
Freddie Wadling,
The Dirtbombs,
Cheater Slicks,
Smog,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Quando Quango,
H. Thieme,
The Offenders,
Mo-Dettes,
Gil Scott Heron,
Main Source,
Funky Four + One,
The Cramps,
Harpers Bizarre,
Au Pairs,
Robert Görl,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Morten Harket,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Angels of Light,
Q65,
the Slits,
Sonny Sharrock,
X-Ray Spex,
Bad Manners,
Half Japanese,
The Monochrome Set,
Blancmange,
Toni Rubio,
Banda Bassotti,
The Skatalites,
Silicon Teens,
The Black Dice,
Steve Hackett,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sound Behaviour,
Ronan,
Joy Division,
The Associates,
Roxette,
Beasts of Bourbon,
A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio.
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.