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 Namibia and from Woodstock.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Columbus.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Motions to the dance 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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All John Foxx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Henry Cow,
Quantec,
LL Cool J,
Soul II Soul,
Eli Mardock,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pulsallama,
Spoonie Gee,
Q65,
The Selecter,
Bronski Beat,
Adolescents,
Soulsonic Force,
Ice-T,
Gabor Szabo,
Malaria!,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Shoche,
Dave Gahan,
Althea and Donna,
Wolf Eyes,
The Fortunes,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Rapeman,
Porter Ricks,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Basic Channel,
Dennis Brown,
Gang Starr,
48th St. Collective,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Doors,
Dead Boys,
The Names,
Alton Ellis,
Marvin Gaye,
Infiniti,
Donald Byrd,
Eric Copeland,
Section 25,
The Skatalites,
PIL,
MDC,
Cymande,
Rod Modell,
Skaos,
Joyce Sims,
Josef K,
The Victims,
Theoretical Girls,
The Offenders,
Mars,
New Order,
The Move,
The Moody Blues,
Eric Dolphy,
Underground Resistance,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Schoolly D,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
World's Most,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Lucky Dragons,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.