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 Malaysia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 synthesizer 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 Hardrive to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Erykah Badu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eli Mardock 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 clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Move record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
Television Personalities,
Moebius,
David McCallum,
The Gladiators,
Country Teasers,
Loose Ends,
Audionom,
Al Stewart,
In Retrospect,
Blake Baxter,
the Germs,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Scientists,
The Moleskins,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Letta Mbulu,
Black Pus,
Quando Quango,
The Knickerbockers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eve St. Jones,
Hasil Adkins,
The Busters,
Barry Ungar,
Terrestrial Tones,
Rod Modell,
Simply Red,
Fear,
Wasted Youth,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Moss Icon,
The Toasters,
Echospace,
Bauhaus,
Jandek,
Intrusion,
Donald Byrd,
Bronski Beat,
Skriet,
The Saints,
The Searchers,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Babytalk,
The Dirtbombs,
Procol Harum,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
John Coltrane,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bluetip,
Bootsy Collins,
Deakin,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Thompson Twins,
Los Fastidios,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Fuzztones,
The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes.
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.