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 Cyprus and from Mexico City.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the snare 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 Aural Exciters to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Sonny Sharrock,
Groovy Waters,
Johnny Osbourne,
DJ Sneak,
Essential Logic,
ABC,
Gil Scott Heron,
Iggy Pop,
The Fugs,
48th St. Collective,
Graham Central Station,
John Foxx,
Guru Guru,
Derrick May,
Delon & Dalcan,
Fatback Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Fuzztones,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joyce Sims,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kurtis Blow,
The Invisible,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Shuggie Otis,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Marc Almond,
The Happenings,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Dirtbombs,
The Neon Judgement,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Tim Buckley,
Al Stewart,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Moby Grape,
Roy Ayers,
Lou Reed,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Cameo,
Barry Ungar,
The Velvet Underground,
Tom Boy,
Kayak,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Soft Cell,
Wolf Eyes,
John Coltrane,
Sparks,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Move,
Scan 7,
Audionom,
The Buckinghams,
Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet.
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.