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 Equatorial Guinea and from London.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 clarinet 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 Yazoo to the electroclash 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 Vladislav Delay. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Joey Negro,
Fluxion,
The Mojo Men,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Zeros,
Suburban Knight,
Gang Green,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Connie Case,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ultra Naté,
Main Source,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Saints,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Drexciya,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Siglo XX,
The Pretty Things,
This Heat,
Skaos,
48th St. Collective,
Fatback Band,
the Normal,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
10cc,
Eden Ahbez,
Accadde A,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Zero Boys,
Scion,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Monochrome Set,
Model 500,
Gang of Four,
Darondo,
Slick Rick,
Smog,
Alison Limerick,
ABBA,
Audionom,
Intrusion,
Ice-T,
Little Man,
Fela Kuti,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Robert Wyatt,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ralphi Rosario,
John Holt,
8 Eyed Spy,
Desert Stars,
UT,
David Bowie,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.