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 Tajikistan and from Cairo.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Throbbing Gristle to the rock 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 Absolute Body Control. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Johnny Clarke,
Eric Dolphy,
Infiniti,
The J.B.'s,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
New Age Steppers,
World's Most,
Quando Quango,
Fluxion,
Blancmange,
Adolescents,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Peter and Kerry,
The Associates,
Warsaw,
Mad Mike,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Standells,
The Wake,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scott Walker,
Rotary Connection,
Hardrive,
Joensuu 1685,
Quantec,
Jesper Dahlback,
the Germs,
the Association,
Alphaville,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Black Dice,
Television Personalities,
Organ,
The Beau Brummels,
These Immortal Souls,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
the Slits,
Eurythmics,
Sixth Finger,
Niagra,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Modern Lovers,
The Slackers,
Lebanon Hanover,
Groovy Waters,
The Trojans,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Gun Club,
Main Source,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Grey Daturas,
Dave Gahan,
Aswad,
Andrew Hill,
Ultimate Spinach,
Livin' Joy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Christie,
Dark Day,
Archie Shepp,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.