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 Guatemala and from Tehran.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Victims to the electroclash 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 Aloha Tigers. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Joe & The Fish 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 spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Smog,
New York Dolls,
Davy DMX,
The Standells,
Neil Young,
Heaven 17,
Marmalade,
Rufus Thomas,
Agitation Free,
Index,
Eric Dolphy,
Boz Scaggs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Fugs,
Public Image Ltd.,
Junior Murvin,
Marcia Griffiths,
Supertramp,
Easy Going,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sister Nancy,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lungfish,
K-Klass,
Barry Ungar,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gil Scott Heron,
Gong,
The Buckinghams,
The Slits,
Outsiders,
the Bar-Kays,
Boredoms,
Crime,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pulsallama,
Pole,
Yaz,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Aaron Thompson,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Black Pus,
MC5,
Black Flag,
Nils Olav,
Jawbox,
The Toasters,
Alison Limerick,
Reagan Youth,
Rakim,
Dorothy Ashby,
Toni Rubio,
Goldenarms,
The Fuzztones,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Television Personalities,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Yazoo,
Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith.
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.