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 Mexico and from Bologna.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Cowsills to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
Agent Orange,
Accadde A,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Peter & Gordon,
Shoche,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Aural Exciters,
Nick Fraelich,
Ponytail,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Yaz,
The Buckinghams,
Lightning Bolt,
Black Flag,
Avey Tare,
The Evens,
Rosa Yemen,
Ituana,
Glambeats Corp.,
Scientists,
Kas Product,
Toni Rubio,
Brass Construction,
Robert Hood,
Sixth Finger,
Ken Boothe,
Joy Division,
Ossler,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Cymande,
Gastr Del Sol,
Graham Central Station,
Drive Like Jehu,
Camouflage,
Bad Manners,
OOIOO,
Deadbeat,
The Fall,
A Certain Ratio,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pet Shop Boys,
Dave Gahan,
EPMD,
Smog,
Lindisfarne,
Jeff Lynne,
Spoonie Gee,
Howard Jones,
The Saints,
Aswad,
Essential Logic,
Prince Buster,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Zapp,
U.S. Maple,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.