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 Spokane.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Michael McDonald 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 Matthew Bourne to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Scott Walker. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ludus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
The Walker Brothers,
Joe Finger,
Public Enemy,
Popol Vuh,
Organ,
Wolf Eyes,
The Wake,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Newcleus,
Spoonie Gee,
X-101,
Ultimate Spinach,
Nick Fraelich,
Television,
The Associates,
Prince Buster,
Harmonia,
Hot Snakes,
Bootsy Collins,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Lightning Bolt,
Funky Four + One,
LL Cool J,
Rekid,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ronan,
The Electric Prunes,
The Gladiators,
Q and Not U,
Tommy Roe,
Mr. Review,
In Retrospect,
Mission of Burma,
Y Pants,
Joyce Sims,
Infiniti,
Deadbeat,
The Flesh Eaters,
Schoolly D,
Thompson Twins,
Lucky Dragons,
Stetsasonic,
The Fire Engines,
The Fugs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Five Americans,
Soft Machine,
Morten Harket,
John Coltrane,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Byron Stingily,
Technova,
Blake Baxter,
The Golliwogs,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
10cc,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Excepter,
Black Flag,
Monolake,
Wings,
Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy.
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.