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 Vietnam and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 clarinet 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 The Move to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Minnie Riperton. All the underground hits.
All The Walker Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dark Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Kinks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sun Ra,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lower 48,
Jeru the Damaja,
Cybotron,
Archie Shepp,
the Sonics,
The Mojo Men,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Metal Thangz,
Interpol,
Bronski Beat,
Soft Machine,
The Saints,
June Days,
Marvin Gaye,
The Gap Band,
Eric Copeland,
The Move,
Model 500,
Porter Ricks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Audionom,
Average White Band,
Buzzcocks,
Spandau Ballet,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Newcleus,
The Sound,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Slave,
Absolute Body Control,
the Association,
Maurizio,
Skriet,
Section 25,
The Durutti Column,
One Last Wish,
Cymande,
Malaria!,
Matthew Bourne,
Glambeats Corp.,
Smog,
The Knickerbockers,
Skaos,
The Leaves,
The Fugs,
John Cale,
Michelle Simonal,
MDC,
Niagra,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Litter,
Pharoah Sanders,
Fela Kuti,
Black Moon,
the Soft Cell,
Neu!,
Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler.
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.