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 Tuvalu and from Milan.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 marimba 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 Eddi Front to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Beau Brummels. All the underground hits.
All Second Layer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Section 25 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Junior Murvin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Kaleidoscope,
Scientists,
Anthony Braxton,
Amon Düül II,
Eve St. Jones,
Jandek,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Monks,
Japan,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Little Man,
Ohio Players,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
AZ,
Vladislav Delay,
Scion,
Youth Brigade,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Parry Music,
Blake Baxter,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Throbbing Gristle,
Cluster,
Yellowson,
Quando Quango,
Alton Ellis,
The Smoke,
Ronan,
H. Thieme,
Wings,
Ultimate Spinach,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Magazine,
Fad Gadget,
Joey Negro,
Michelle Simonal,
Johnny Osbourne,
Y Pants,
Eric B and Rakim,
Cameo,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Toasters,
Whodini,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sam Rivers,
Cybotron,
Anakelly,
the Slits,
48th St. Collective,
Funkadelic,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Eli Mardock,
Kool Moe Dee,
Los Fastidios,
Dead Boys,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Marcia Griffiths,
Scott Walker,
The Happenings,
B.T. Express,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.