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 Uruguay and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Spokane and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Oblivians to the rock 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Lydon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crooked Eye,
Tubeway Army,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Zeros,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Colin Newman,
In Retrospect,
Con Funk Shun,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Fear,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
JFA,
Nirvana,
Yellowson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Modern Lovers,
Pere Ubu,
Connie Case,
Wally Richardson,
Silicon Teens,
Severed Heads,
John Lydon,
Massinfluence,
L. Decosne,
Nils Olav,
Ultimate Spinach,
Mars,
Chrome,
Hot Snakes,
Roy Ayers,
Minny Pops,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Walker Brothers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Easy Going,
The Golliwogs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Circle Jerks,
Piero Umiliani,
Kas Product,
Quantec,
Mary Jane Girls,
Andrew Hill,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jacques Brel,
Erasure,
Alison Limerick,
Make Up,
Minor Threat,
Archie Shepp,
The Fugs,
Ponytail,
The Busters,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sam Rivers,
Simply Red,
Icehouse,
Kayak,
Monolake,
Mark Hollis,
Hashim,
Stiv Bators,
Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends.
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.