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 Iraq and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the funk 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 Radio Birdman. All the underground hits.
All Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sound Behaviour,
The Gladiators,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Cramps,
Scientists,
New Age Steppers,
Zero Boys,
The J.B.'s,
Eddi Front,
Frankie Knuckles,
Brass Construction,
Donny Hathaway,
Scan 7,
The Gap Band,
John Foxx,
the Sonics,
Flipper,
The Sonics,
The Shadows of Knight,
Alice Coltrane,
The Searchers,
E-Dancer,
This Heat,
Sun Ra,
Pagans,
Joe Smooth,
Banda Bassotti,
Shoche,
Lou Reed,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bobby Womack,
Stetsasonic,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rod Modell,
Television Personalities,
Neu!,
The Doobie Brothers,
Josef K,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tres Demented,
Grauzone,
Fat Boys,
The Evens,
The Associates,
Hardrive,
The Fortunes,
Niagra,
EPMD,
Lou Christie,
The Barracudas,
Mandrill,
Rufus Thomas,
8 Eyed Spy,
Archie Shepp,
The New Christs,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Skaos,
Electric Prunes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
John Cale, John Cale, John Cale, John Cale.
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.