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 Honduras and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 linndrum 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 Funkadelic to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All Fifty Foot Hose tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Buckinghams,
The Victims,
Shoche,
Easy Going,
Kerrie Biddell,
Mary Jane Girls,
H. Thieme,
Scion,
Public Image Ltd.,
Tommy Roe,
Juan Atkins,
Jerry's Kids,
Soft Machine,
Desert Stars,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Don Cherry,
Cluster,
Aural Exciters,
Radio Birdman,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Fela Kuti,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Happenings,
The Sound,
The Zeros,
Blossom Toes,
Television,
Alphaville,
Lungfish,
Roxette,
One Last Wish,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Essential Logic,
Wolf Eyes,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Music Machine,
Pierre Henry,
Con Funk Shun,
Alton Ellis,
Marc Almond,
Outsiders,
The Offenders,
Echospace,
Organ,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Human League,
Sixth Finger,
Agitation Free,
The Slackers,
The Cure,
Jandek,
Graham Central Station,
Qualms,
Ossler,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Infiniti,
The Star Department,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Malaria!,
R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O..
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.