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 Zimbabwe and from Accra.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 10cc to the jazz 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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joyce Sims 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lightning Bolt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
Depeche Mode,
The Sonics,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jeff Mills,
John Holt,
The Doors,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Doobie Brothers,
Oblivians,
Delta 5,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Walker Brothers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Slave,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Scrapy,
Terry Callier,
Curtis Mayfield,
In Retrospect,
Swans,
Gil Scott Heron,
Man Eating Sloth,
Brand Nubian,
Prince Buster,
Morten Harket,
Cameo,
Iggy Pop,
Mission of Burma,
Hardrive,
The Dave Clark Five,
Graham Central Station,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Move,
X-Ray Spex,
Nation of Ulysses,
Scion,
The Cure,
Buzzcocks,
Alton Ellis,
MDC,
Absolute Body Control,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Chris & Cosey,
Simply Red,
James White and The Blacks,
Half Japanese,
The Birthday Party,
Robert Wyatt,
Sun City Girls,
Bluetip,
The Fall,
Maurizio,
Peter and Kerry,
The Cramps,
Moss Icon,
Avey Tare,
Severed Heads,
Gong,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
kango's stein massive,
The Fortunes, The Fortunes, The Fortunes, The Fortunes.
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.