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 Ivory Coast and from Lagos.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Laurel Aitken to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Kaleidoscope. All the underground hits.
All PIL tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Happenings,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Fugs,
Ultra Naté,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scott Walker,
Terry Callier,
Gang Starr,
Lightning Bolt,
Steve Hackett,
8 Eyed Spy,
Mo-Dettes,
The Misunderstood,
Mad Mike,
Kayak,
Ultravox,
The Victims,
Charles Mingus,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Crispy Ambulance,
DJ Style,
Maleditus Sound,
Warsaw,
Oblivians,
Jeff Mills,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Urselle,
A Flock of Seagulls,
L. Decosne,
Jacob Miller,
the Germs,
Agent Orange,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Johnny Clarke,
Country Teasers,
Thompson Twins,
Lee Hazlewood,
Black Sheep,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Man Parrish,
Electric Prunes,
UT,
Laurel Aitken,
Half Japanese,
Masters at Work,
Moss Icon,
the Association,
Rakim,
Grandmaster Flash,
Aaron Thompson,
Bluetip,
Crime,
Lucky Dragons,
The Last Poets,
Duran Duran,
Bauhaus,
Babytalk,
Tears for Fears,
Inner City,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.