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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Crash Course in Science to the electroclash 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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All The Doobie Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fuzztones,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sun Ra,
Big Daddy Kane,
Scan 7,
Derrick May,
Babytalk,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Television Personalities,
Silicon Teens,
Pierre Henry,
Lyres,
The Trojans,
Joy Division,
Yusef Lateef,
Scratch Acid,
The Martian,
These Immortal Souls,
Matthew Halsall,
Trumans Water,
Archie Shepp,
Guru Guru,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bang On A Can,
Grauzone,
The Gories,
The Doobie Brothers,
Brand Nubian,
Swell Maps,
The Index,
Warren Ellis,
The Golliwogs,
Aloha Tigers,
The Flesh Eaters,
Royal Trux,
Negative Approach,
Black Flag,
Henry Cow,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gang Green,
Ossler,
Clear Light,
K-Klass,
Patti Smith,
Khruangbin,
Bill Wells,
Youth Brigade,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Arab on Radar,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Fortunes,
The Vogues,
Cluster,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jacques Brel,
Icehouse,
The Techniques,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Supertramp,
Pagans,
Wire, Wire, Wire, Wire.
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.