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 Jamaica and from Shanghai.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the snare 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 Guru Guru to the grunge 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 The Flesh Eaters. All the underground hits.
All Judy Mowatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
A Certain Ratio,
10cc,
kango's stein massive,
The Doors,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Echospace,
Dennis Brown,
Michelle Simonal,
Trumans Water,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Bronski Beat,
Bang On A Can,
The Smoke,
Fear,
Audionom,
Aloha Tigers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Infiniti,
Morten Harket,
Eli Mardock,
Marine Girls,
Neu!,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Monochrome Set,
Byron Stingily,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sun City Girls,
Glenn Branca,
Gabor Szabo,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Barrington Levy,
Second Layer,
The Beau Brummels,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Charles Mingus,
Todd Rundgren,
Pulsallama,
Big Daddy Kane,
Niagra,
The Tremeloes,
Duran Duran,
Pagans,
Jacques Brel,
Harmonia,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
B.T. Express,
the Bar-Kays,
Lou Christie,
The Busters,
Fifty Foot Hose,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
E-Dancer,
Kool Moe Dee,
PIL,
The Happenings,
Swell Maps,
Inner City,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Amazonics,
Eurythmics, Eurythmics, Eurythmics, Eurythmics.
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.