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 St Lucia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Radio Birdman to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
David McCallum,
The Young Rascals,
The Blackbyrds,
Joyce Sims,
David Axelrod,
Judy Mowatt,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sandy B,
Eric Dolphy,
Unwound,
Hardrive,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Moebius,
Masters at Work,
Motorama,
Roy Ayers,
the Soft Cell,
Talk Talk,
Liliput,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Radio Birdman,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Five Americans,
Subhumans,
T.S.O.L.,
Marvin Gaye,
Electric Prunes,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Johnny Osbourne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bronski Beat,
The New Christs,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Eric Copeland,
The Searchers,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Busters,
Bobby Byrd,
Brand Nubian,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Loose Ends,
Main Source,
Grauzone,
The Cramps,
Quantec,
Dead Boys,
The Gories,
Lungfish,
Altered Images,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ponytail,
The Saints,
Quadrant,
Fluxion,
The Fuzztones,
Fela Kuti,
The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers.
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.