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 Niger and from Manila.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Michael McDonald 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 Godley & Creme to the jazz 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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
Crash Course in Science,
Scion,
Soulsonic Force,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
L. Decosne,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Drexciya,
La Düsseldorf,
Anakelly,
Tommy Roe,
Pantaleimon,
The Monochrome Set,
Minor Threat,
Junior Murvin,
Marvin Gaye,
Metal Thangz,
Howard Jones,
Sixth Finger,
Funkadelic,
the Bar-Kays,
The Cure,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Doors,
Depeche Mode,
Television,
Albert Ayler,
Massinfluence,
Byron Stingily,
Mandrill,
Gerry Rafferty,
Rosa Yemen,
The Residents,
Soft Machine,
The Monks,
Outsiders,
Marmalade,
Technova,
The Blues Magoos,
Lightning Bolt,
Patti Smith,
48th St. Collective,
Kurtis Blow,
Sound Behaviour,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Human League,
Negative Approach,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Pretty Things,
Robert Wyatt,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
MC5,
The Remains,
Johnny Clarke,
The Fugs,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Brothers Johnson,
AZ,
Ludus, Ludus, Ludus, Ludus.
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.