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 Guinea and from Madrid.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 ABBA to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All The Gun Club tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Victims,
John Cale,
David Bowie,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Judy Mowatt,
Das Ding,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Country Teasers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
One Last Wish,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
X-102,
The Stooges,
Can,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
New Order,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Fela Kuti,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Electric Prunes,
Slick Rick,
Ossler,
Brand Nubian,
Soft Cell,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bad Manners,
Oneida,
Drexciya,
Kerri Chandler,
The Techniques,
Absolute Body Control,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Clear Light,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sugar Minott,
The Divine Comedy,
Eric Copeland,
The Black Dice,
Bizarre Inc.,
Matthew Bourne,
The Fall,
Mad Mike,
Marshall Jefferson,
Smog,
Scan 7,
Agent Orange,
Easy Going,
Half Japanese,
Delon & Dalcan,
Scratch Acid,
Deakin,
Kerrie Biddell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Barrington Levy,
The Sound,
Von Mondo,
Nick Fraelich,
The Golliwogs,
Saccharine Trust,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan.
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.