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 Uruguay and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 harpsichord 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 The Blues Magoos to the disco 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 Wyatt. All the underground hits.
All Absolute Body Control tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Subhumans,
Babytalk,
Kurtis Blow,
Unrelated Segments,
Bobby Womack,
John Holt,
Radiohead,
10cc,
Radiopuhelimet,
The J.B.'s,
The Zeros,
Urselle,
Lakeside,
Lou Reed,
Silicon Teens,
Kayak,
Adolescents,
Ossler,
The Electric Prunes,
Ronan,
Quando Quango,
The Offenders,
Stetsasonic,
Q65,
Kool Moe Dee,
Kenny Larkin,
The Cramps,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Red Krayola,
Sarah Menescal,
cv313,
Minnie Riperton,
The Velvet Underground,
Infiniti,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rhythm & Sound,
Parry Music,
Davy DMX,
The Toasters,
Television Personalities,
Whodini,
Ice-T,
Circle Jerks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Faraquet,
OOIOO,
The Move,
KRS-One,
Can,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Stereo Dub,
Motorama,
Minny Pops,
Drexciya,
Pole,
Slick Rick,
Swell Maps,
China Crisis,
Gichy Dan,
Skaos, Skaos, Skaos, Skaos.
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.