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 Canada and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 The Skatalites to the grunge 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 The Residents. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lucky Dragons record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Peter & Gordon,
Massinfluence,
Bobby Byrd,
Delta 5,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Brothers Johnson,
Bad Manners,
Simply Red,
Pagans,
Aloha Tigers,
Barrington Levy,
Stiv Bators,
Tres Demented,
Shuggie Otis,
Gang Gang Dance,
Deakin,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Faraquet,
Robert Wyatt,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Walker Brothers,
Rod Modell,
DJ Sneak,
Aural Exciters,
Black Sheep,
Qualms,
The Smiths,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Raincoats,
Jeff Lynne,
Max Romeo,
Cluster,
Sparks,
kango's stein massive,
Ten City,
Todd Terry,
Young Marble Giants,
8 Eyed Spy,
Minor Threat,
The Velvet Underground,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Eurythmics,
Bob Dylan,
Roxette,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Camberwell Now,
Procol Harum,
Eddi Front,
Subhumans,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sam Rivers,
World's Most,
Funky Four + One,
AZ,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Skatalites,
The Stooges,
Soft Machine,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.