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 Kingdom and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 organ 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 The Cure to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Knickerbockers,
Quando Quango,
Kenny Larkin,
Lalann,
Yaz,
Eric Dolphy,
Spoonie Gee,
Liliput,
Kurtis Blow,
MC5,
Flipper,
The Blackbyrds,
Pussy Galore,
Bill Wells,
Roxy Music,
Au Pairs,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
OOIOO,
The Gun Club,
The Vogues,
Kevin Saunderson,
Thee Headcoats,
Country Teasers,
Pagans,
Black Moon,
The Offenders,
Saccharine Trust,
The Trojans,
Marine Girls,
the Sonics,
Magma,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Human League,
Radiohead,
The Remains,
Malaria!,
Toni Rubio,
Y Pants,
Rites of Spring,
Symarip,
Moebius,
The Mummies,
Harpers Bizarre,
June Days,
Pharoah Sanders,
Alison Limerick,
Michelle Simonal,
Depeche Mode,
Mark Hollis,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Gang Starr,
The Count Five,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Wings,
Khruangbin,
David Bowie,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Busters,
Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus.
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.