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 Argentina and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 guitar 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 Carl Craig to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mummies record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
The Cramps,
Scratch Acid,
Dark Day,
Dawn Penn,
Arab on Radar,
Barrington Levy,
Sound Behaviour,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Rites of Spring,
Idris Muhammad,
Tubeway Army,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Skatalites,
Ken Boothe,
Drive Like Jehu,
LL Cool J,
The Fall,
Brothers Johnson,
The Detroit Cobras,
John Lydon,
The Modern Lovers,
Spoonie Gee,
The Divine Comedy,
Al Stewart,
Bobby Womack,
The Music Machine,
Television,
Dorothy Ashby,
FM Einheit,
Mantronix,
Lakeside,
Laurel Aitken,
Eddi Front,
Peter and Kerry,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Can,
Tomorrow,
New Age Steppers,
The Grass Roots,
Jawbox,
Bobby Sherman,
Spandau Ballet,
Leonard Cohen,
The Sound,
Eden Ahbez,
the Germs,
The Durutti Column,
Joensuu 1685,
Amon Düül II,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Marc Almond,
Circle Jerks,
The Dirtbombs,
The Busters,
Kayak,
Steve Hackett,
MC5,
KRS-One,
DNA,
Los Fastidios,
the Normal,
Vainqueur,
Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant.
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.