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 Bulgaria and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 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 Unwound to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control 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 rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Howard Jones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro 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?
John Lydon,
Minor Threat,
Black Pus,
Grandmaster Flash,
Heaven 17,
Cybotron,
Fad Gadget,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Idris Muhammad,
Gang Green,
Organ,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Black Flag,
The Golliwogs,
Colin Newman,
Goldenarms,
10cc,
Sight & Sound,
The Martian,
Sandy B,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
MC5,
Roy Ayers,
Patti Smith,
Scrapy,
Deepchord,
Alton Ellis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Janne Schatter,
The Evens,
Ronnie Foster,
Ludus,
Michelle Simonal,
James White and The Blacks,
The Buckinghams,
Lungfish,
Crash Course in Science,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lucky Dragons,
Barbara Tucker,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mary Jane Girls,
Motorama,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Anakelly,
Icehouse,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Boredoms,
Black Bananas,
Quadrant,
The Flesh Eaters,
Throbbing Gristle,
Roger Hodgson,
Prince Buster,
Max Romeo,
Mission of Burma,
Delta 5,
Echospace,
ABBA,
Television,
Grey Daturas,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.