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 Barbados and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Make Up to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Kinks. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
F. McDonald,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Roger Hodgson,
The Barracudas,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Arcadia,
Funkadelic,
Judy Mowatt,
Zapp,
Agitation Free,
Dawn Penn,
Shoche,
The Human League,
Lightning Bolt,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
R.M.O.,
Con Funk Shun,
Adolescents,
Main Source,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Quantec,
The Wake,
The United States of America,
The Pretty Things,
Roxy Music,
Lyres,
Monolake,
Television,
Sam Rivers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Hardrive,
10cc,
Liliput,
One Last Wish,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Blake Baxter,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bobby Sherman,
Ituana,
The American Breed,
Lindisfarne,
Rhythm & Sound,
Johnny Clarke,
The Mojo Men,
Colin Newman,
Grey Daturas,
Outsiders,
Ultravox,
Brick,
Ice-T,
Mandrill,
Peter and Kerry,
Man Eating Sloth,
Moebius,
The Cowsills,
Franke,
Sixth Finger,
The Cure,
Brand Nubian,
Rod Modell,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.