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 Panama and from Spokane.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Loose Ends to the electroclash 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
The United States of America,
Henry Cow,
Ludus,
Negative Approach,
Soulsonic Force,
Amon Düül II,
Eli Mardock,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Television,
Agitation Free,
Lightning Bolt,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ronnie Foster,
Gil Scott Heron,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Public Enemy,
The Beau Brummels,
Cecil Taylor,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Michelle Simonal,
Jeff Lynne,
Hot Snakes,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Kas Product,
The Blues Magoos,
Warsaw,
Gong,
Y Pants,
Royal Trux,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Spoonie Gee,
Yellowson,
The Mojo Men,
Ultra Naté,
Underground Resistance,
Robert Wyatt,
Icehouse,
Subhumans,
Rotary Connection,
Deepchord,
Excepter,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Stiv Bators,
Japan,
The Seeds,
Deadbeat,
Trumans Water,
Masters at Work,
China Crisis,
The Remains,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Saints,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rhythm & Sound,
Shoche,
Oneida,
Soul II Soul,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.