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 Ecuador and from Mumbai.
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 Madrid and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 linndrum 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 Sugar Minott to the punk 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 Sixth Finger. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smoke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Suburban Knight,
Flash Fearless,
PIL,
The Offenders,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Names,
Sister Nancy,
Panda Bear,
Organ,
Nils Olav,
Fela Kuti,
JFA,
Brothers Johnson,
The Standells,
The Gories,
Nick Fraelich,
The Toasters,
The Doobie Brothers,
Boredoms,
Eddi Front,
Joey Negro,
Agitation Free,
La Düsseldorf,
Royal Trux,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Skatalites,
Porter Ricks,
The Pretty Things,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
MDC,
Henry Cow,
Cecil Taylor,
Grauzone,
Bill Wells,
Glenn Branca,
Goldenarms,
The Star Department,
Shoche,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bill Near,
Jimmy McGriff,
Danielle Patucci,
Hot Snakes,
Eden Ahbez,
Outsiders,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ossler,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Cure,
Cameo,
Black Sheep,
Zero Boys,
Ice-T,
Sexual Harrassment,
Crooked Eye,
Jerry's Kids,
The Mummies,
Procol Harum,
Flipper,
Aloha Tigers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.