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 Romania and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Louis and Bebe Barron to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Lightning Bolt. All the underground hits.
All Wasted Youth 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 electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
The Golliwogs,
Don Cherry,
Bob Dylan,
Fluxion,
Gil Scott Heron,
The J.B.'s,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Rites of Spring,
John Foxx,
Qualms,
Fear,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Neon Judgement,
Guru Guru,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Real Kids,
Ken Boothe,
Rufus Thomas,
The Names,
Matthew Bourne,
Avey Tare,
The Divine Comedy,
Bauhaus,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Young Marble Giants,
Public Image Ltd.,
Marmalade,
Ornette Coleman,
Tommy Roe,
Ohio Players,
Thompson Twins,
Ten City,
David McCallum,
Reuben Wilson,
June Days,
Dawn Penn,
Scientists,
The Young Rascals,
Soul II Soul,
Flash Fearless,
Isaac Hayes,
Deepchord,
Al Stewart,
Sight & Sound,
The Red Krayola,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Wake,
Los Fastidios,
Erykah Badu,
Altered Images,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Public Enemy,
Liliput,
Slick Rick,
Half Japanese,
The New Christs,
Minnie Riperton,
Tropical Tobacco,
Delta 5,
Brass Construction,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.