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 Sri Lanka and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Michael McDonald 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 New Age Steppers to the rap 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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Byron Stingily,
Visage,
LL Cool J,
The Happenings,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Second Layer,
Fela Kuti,
Panda Bear,
Iggy Pop,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bluetip,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Goldenarms,
Chris Corsano,
Tubeway Army,
The Young Rascals,
Josef K,
Mark Hollis,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Scan 7,
Archie Shepp,
Todd Rundgren,
Scientists,
Cecil Taylor,
X-102,
Sonny Sharrock,
Robert Hood,
Colin Newman,
Public Enemy,
Fat Boys,
Bad Manners,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lucky Dragons,
Rotary Connection,
Funkadelic,
The Fire Engines,
Robert Görl,
Mantronix,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Last Poets,
Roxy Music,
Stetsasonic,
Sight & Sound,
Skarface,
Los Fastidios,
Kenny Larkin,
The J.B.'s,
David Axelrod,
EPMD,
The Monks,
Sun City Girls,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Trojans,
The Knickerbockers,
Siglo XX,
Davy DMX,
Throbbing Gristle,
Spoonie Gee,
Skaos,
Junior Murvin,
Moss Icon,
Subhumans,
Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls.
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.