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 Andorra and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Kings Of Tomorrow to the funk 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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All Mr. Review tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eddi Front record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
Avey Tare,
LL Cool J,
The Real Kids,
Darondo,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Soul Sonic Force,
Slick Rick,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Evens,
Cabaret Voltaire,
cv313,
Country Joe & The Fish,
John Lydon,
Yaz,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Walker Brothers,
Juan Atkins,
The Remains,
Davy DMX,
The Tremeloes,
Make Up,
The Golliwogs,
Simply Red,
Sonic Youth,
Bang On A Can,
Dennis Brown,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Seeds,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Saints,
Lucky Dragons,
Wally Richardson,
Sparks,
Absolute Body Control,
Ituana,
The Human League,
AZ,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pylon,
The Neon Judgement,
Sister Nancy,
Bauhaus,
Morten Harket,
David McCallum,
Sugar Minott,
Lalo Schifrin,
Groovy Waters,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Fuzztones,
Barclay James Harvest,
A Certain Ratio,
Ronan,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pantytec,
Roy Ayers,
Carl Craig,
The Associates,
The Techniques,
Junior Murvin,
Bad Manners,
Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio.
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.