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 Micronesia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the guitar 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 Josef K to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All Dead Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Detroit Cobras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marmalade,
cv313,
A Certain Ratio,
Gastr Del Sol,
Country Teasers,
The United States of America,
June Days,
Cybotron,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
ABBA,
Amon Düül,
Lalo Schifrin,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
John Lydon,
Derrick Morgan,
Absolute Body Control,
Ronnie Foster,
Fad Gadget,
Sällskapet,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Amon Düül II,
Man Eating Sloth,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Johnny Clarke,
Cymande,
The Moleskins,
Ludus,
Rekid,
Trumans Water,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Radiohead,
Funkadelic,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kas Product,
Siglo XX,
Kenny Larkin,
The Sonics,
Schoolly D,
Technova,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rakim,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gichy Dan,
Pantaleimon,
Cal Tjader,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eric B and Rakim,
Curtis Mayfield,
Whodini,
The Flesh Eaters,
Black Flag,
Robert Görl,
Wasted Youth,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Slits,
Zapp,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.