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 Mongolia and from Delhi.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Velvet Underground to the funk 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 Robert Hood. All the underground hits.
All Moby Grape tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantaleimon,
Hasil Adkins,
Cluster,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bad Manners,
New Age Steppers,
MDC,
Au Pairs,
Faraquet,
Infiniti,
Symarip,
Dennis Brown,
The Star Department,
The Litter,
Fela Kuti,
Basic Channel,
Magma,
Accadde A,
kango's stein massive,
Gang Starr,
Henry Cow,
Massinfluence,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Dave Clark Five,
Amon Düül II,
10cc,
Danielle Patucci,
The Motions,
Terry Callier,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kas Product,
Lalo Schifrin,
Hoover,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Mars,
Donny Hathaway,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Drexciya,
Arthur Verocai,
The Martian,
The J.B.'s,
Television,
The Index,
The Slits,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Nick Fraelich,
Andrew Hill,
Morten Harket,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Eli Mardock,
Alton Ellis,
Ponytail,
In Retrospect,
Shoche,
Simply Red,
Scan 7,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.