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 Armenia and from Toronto.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 oboe 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 China Crisis to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Five Americans. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronnie Foster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gang Starr,
Black Bananas,
A Certain Ratio,
Ice-T,
Nas,
Skarface,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Dirtbombs,
Porter Ricks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Hoover,
Stockholm Monsters,
Supertramp,
Television,
Erykah Badu,
Letta Mbulu,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Isaac Hayes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joensuu 1685,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Donny Hathaway,
Underground Resistance,
Jacob Miller,
Tomorrow,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Nick Fraelich,
The Knickerbockers,
Brick,
Derrick Morgan,
Pylon,
Malaria!,
Grey Daturas,
Easy Going,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kevin Saunderson,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Joe Finger,
Sandy B,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Grauzone,
The Young Rascals,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Scratch Acid,
Flipper,
The Cowsills,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
MDC,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Max Romeo,
Swell Maps,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Johnny Clarke,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Names,
The Selecter,
The Cure,
The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras.
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.