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 France and from Shanghai.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Robert Palmer 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 Desert Stars to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terrestrial Tones 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers,
Flash Fearless,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Index,
Second Layer,
PIL,
Aswad,
The Buckinghams,
Intrusion,
Scrapy,
David Bowie,
The Pretty Things,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Roger Hodgson,
Ponytail,
Young Marble Giants,
Rosa Yemen,
Letta Mbulu,
Roxy Music,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
This Heat,
10cc,
Monolake,
Toni Rubio,
Wings,
Liliput,
Radio Birdman,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Barry Ungar,
Kaleidoscope,
Excepter,
Swell Maps,
Dave Gahan,
Von Mondo,
Symarip,
Dennis Brown,
Black Sheep,
Agitation Free,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scratch Acid,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Flesh Eaters,
Danielle Patucci,
June Days,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Knickerbockers,
Lalann,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Count Five,
Eurythmics,
Gabor Szabo,
Thee Headcoats,
Little Man,
Cal Tjader,
Robert Wyatt,
The Zeros,
X-101,
Pole,
The Mummies,
Lou Christie,
DJ Sneak,
Anthony Braxton,
Ludus, Ludus, Ludus, Ludus.
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.