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 Korea South and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Derrick Morgan to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Jeru the Damaja. All the underground hits.
All Mars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Model 500 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Shadows of Knight,
Eddi Front,
This Heat,
Sparks,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The American Breed,
Iggy Pop,
Das Ding,
Ohio Players,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
New Age Steppers,
Hardrive,
Al Stewart,
Maleditus Sound,
Gichy Dan,
Y Pants,
Marc Almond,
Dead Boys,
Hasil Adkins,
Barrington Levy,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sonic Youth,
The Gladiators,
Black Flag,
The United States of America,
Faraquet,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Motions,
Soft Machine,
Organ,
the Germs,
The Standells,
Derrick Morgan,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lyres,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Spoonie Gee,
Grauzone,
T. Rex,
Dark Day,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sixth Finger,
The Blues Magoos,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Alice Coltrane,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Camberwell Now,
The Toasters,
Basic Channel,
Vladislav Delay,
John Cale,
Gabor Szabo,
PIL,
Motorama,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Fire Engines,
The Gap Band,
Alton Ellis,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.