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 Niger and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 mellotron 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 Joe Finger to the rock 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deadbeat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flipper record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Liliput,
Henry Cow,
Rotary Connection,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Raincoats,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Saccharine Trust,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
DJ Style,
The Fuzztones,
Yusef Lateef,
Minny Pops,
CMW,
Soulsonic Force,
Leonard Cohen,
Funky Four + One,
Eden Ahbez,
The Seeds,
Siglo XX,
Amon Düül II,
Adolescents,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Kinks,
The Knickerbockers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Grauzone,
Second Layer,
Warsaw,
Basic Channel,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jeff Mills,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pylon,
Terrestrial Tones,
Amazonics,
Kerri Chandler,
The Black Dice,
Crispy Ambulance,
Boz Scaggs,
Brass Construction,
Soul Sonic Force,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Banda Bassotti,
Judy Mowatt,
The Move,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lightning Bolt,
John Lydon,
Kurtis Blow,
Jacob Miller,
The Stooges,
The Moody Blues,
The Detroit Cobras,
Parry Music,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.