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 Paraguay and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Piero Umiliani to the punk 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 Buzzcocks. All the underground hits.
All the Bar-Kays tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacob Miller 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?
MC5,
Black Bananas,
Andrew Hill,
Faraquet,
The Angels of Light,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bobby Sherman,
Colin Newman,
Deepchord,
Tomorrow,
Massinfluence,
Barrington Levy,
Chris Corsano,
Yellowson,
Television,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Litter,
The Trojans,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Flash Fearless,
Ituana,
Japan,
Main Source,
Soulsonic Force,
Barclay James Harvest,
Babytalk,
Anakelly,
Barbara Tucker,
Sound Behaviour,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Skatalites,
The Gun Club,
The Monks,
John Holt,
Angry Samoans,
Quantec,
In Retrospect,
Erykah Badu,
The Slits,
Con Funk Shun,
Man Parrish,
Connie Case,
The New Christs,
Los Fastidios,
Aaron Thompson,
The Barracudas,
10cc,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
John Lydon,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rosa Yemen,
The Standells,
Radiohead,
Lalann,
Marvin Gaye,
Scion,
Severed Heads,
Eric Dolphy,
the Human League,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.