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 Mauritius and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Pole to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Morten Harket. All the underground hits.
All Ultra Naté tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
The Gap Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Icehouse,
Idris Muhammad,
The Busters,
Charles Mingus,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Eli Mardock,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Liliput,
Make Up,
Marmalade,
Unwound,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Q65,
Amon Düül II,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pet Shop Boys,
Matthew Bourne,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Fugazi,
Gil Scott Heron,
Con Funk Shun,
Dorothy Ashby,
Barry Ungar,
The Associates,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sonic Youth,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Mission of Burma,
Eric Dolphy,
Sound Behaviour,
Lalo Schifrin,
Erykah Badu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
K-Klass,
Soulsonic Force,
The Motions,
Andrew Hill,
Boz Scaggs,
Derrick May,
Masters at Work,
Electric Prunes,
Joey Negro,
Stockholm Monsters,
Minny Pops,
Minnie Riperton,
Sight & Sound,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Laurel Aitken,
James White and The Blacks,
Banda Bassotti,
Roxette,
Iggy Pop,
DNA,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lou Reed,
Aural Exciters,
Audionom,
Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants.
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.