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 Panama and from Stockholm.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Ponytail to the rock 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 The Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Girls At Our Best! 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Isaac Hayes,
Faust,
Lyres,
Jeff Lynne,
Altered Images,
Idris Muhammad,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Seeds,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Modern Lovers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Peter and Kerry,
Bootsy Collins,
The New Christs,
Swell Maps,
Radiopuhelimet,
Saccharine Trust,
Lakeside,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Wire,
Iggy Pop,
Agent Orange,
Connie Case,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Main Source,
Echospace,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Youth Brigade,
Eddi Front,
The Smoke,
Lee Hazlewood,
Icehouse,
Slick Rick,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
FM Einheit,
OOIOO,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Pretty Things,
Yellowson,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Skatalites,
Black Sheep,
The Techniques,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Names,
Michelle Simonal,
Essential Logic,
AZ,
Chris Corsano,
KRS-One,
Aloha Tigers,
Black Moon,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ken Boothe,
The Music Machine,
Marvin Gaye,
Scion,
Bill Near,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Newcleus,
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.