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 United States and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Dead Boys to the rap 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bluetip,
The Monochrome Set,
Peter & Gordon,
The Cramps,
48th St. Collective,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Make Up,
New York Dolls,
K-Klass,
Sugar Minott,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Flesh Eaters,
Rotary Connection,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Banda Bassotti,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Seeds,
Sister Nancy,
Sun Ra,
Shoche,
a-ha,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
ABC,
Dual Sessions,
Mad Mike,
Stiv Bators,
Public Image Ltd.,
Yusef Lateef,
Pylon,
Inner City,
Ultra Naté,
the Association,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Divine Comedy,
Sound Behaviour,
Visage,
Sly & The Family Stone,
David McCallum,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Crispian St. Peters,
Moby Grape,
Kaleidoscope,
Aloha Tigers,
Maleditus Sound,
Oneida,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Grauzone,
Panda Bear,
Suicide,
Johnny Osbourne,
Hasil Adkins,
Robert Hood,
Brothers Johnson,
Juan Atkins,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Derrick May,
Lou Christie,
Gong,
Angry Samoans,
Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange.
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.