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 Kyrgyzstan and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bill Near. All the underground hits.
All London Community Gospel Choir tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Simply Red,
the Soft Cell,
The Move,
Kaleidoscope,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Half Japanese,
Thee Headcoats,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Doors,
Smog,
Camouflage,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Dirtbombs,
Dorothy Ashby,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
DNA,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bauhaus,
Motorama,
The Wake,
Janne Schatter,
Tropical Tobacco,
Todd Rundgren,
Moby Grape,
Bluetip,
Glenn Branca,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
CMW,
The Blackbyrds,
Peter and Kerry,
Minnie Riperton,
Drexciya,
Easy Going,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fela Kuti,
Sällskapet,
Visage,
Guru Guru,
The Last Poets,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Leonard Cohen,
The Real Kids,
Sonny Sharrock,
Accadde A,
The Smiths,
The Detroit Cobras,
KRS-One,
the Human League,
Barbara Tucker,
The Gories,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Pretty Things,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Television Personalities,
Joe Finger,
Suburban Knight,
Aswad,
Gang of Four,
H. Thieme,
Con Funk Shun,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.