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 Nigeria and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 Calgary and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Cowsills to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All Pussy Galore tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gladiators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Ohio Players,
Loose Ends,
The Techniques,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gregory Isaacs,
China Crisis,
Banda Bassotti,
10cc,
John Lydon,
U.S. Maple,
Pere Ubu,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rapeman,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Skatalites,
Blossom Toes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Marine Girls,
Bauhaus,
Nik Kershaw,
Sonny Sharrock,
Icehouse,
Skarface,
KRS-One,
Radiopuhelimet,
Japan,
Mandrill,
Q and Not U,
It's A Beautiful Day,
B.T. Express,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Modern Lovers,
The Stooges,
The Gun Club,
Parry Music,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Alice Coltrane,
Robert Hood,
EPMD,
Liliput,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Tremeloes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Clear Light,
Easy Going,
Jacob Miller,
Boredoms,
Connie Case,
Brass Construction,
Bobby Sherman,
La Düsseldorf,
Lakeside,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Guru Guru,
The Beau Brummels,
Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants.
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.