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 Poland and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Pagans to the techno 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Kings Of Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy Collins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mandrill,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Suicide,
Pylon,
Oneida,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Hasil Adkins,
Buzzcocks,
Thee Headcoats,
Delon & Dalcan,
Surgeon,
Hashim,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
KRS-One,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Godley & Creme,
Eurythmics,
These Immortal Souls,
Lee Hazlewood,
Brass Construction,
Rites of Spring,
Soul Sonic Force,
Nirvana,
The Sound,
LL Cool J,
Bang On A Can,
The Golliwogs,
Von Mondo,
Roy Ayers,
The Knickerbockers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Morten Harket,
Ken Boothe,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Robert Hood,
Pet Shop Boys,
Au Pairs,
Chris & Cosey,
Model 500,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
OOIOO,
Silicon Teens,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Dirtbombs,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Moleskins,
DJ Sneak,
Fear,
Black Sheep,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Robert Görl,
Michelle Simonal,
Heaven 17,
The Last Poets,
Curtis Mayfield,
John Lydon,
Crooked Eye,
The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers.
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.