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 Germany and from Mexico City.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 güiro 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 Infiniti to the punk 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Sister Nancy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lafayette Afro Rock Band 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeru the Damaja record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABBA,
Pantaleimon,
The Mummies,
A Certain Ratio,
Young Marble Giants,
Sonic Youth,
Rhythm & Sound,
Faust,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Residents,
the Normal,
Delon & Dalcan,
Minny Pops,
Alton Ellis,
Letta Mbulu,
Nico,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Slits,
Juan Atkins,
Negative Approach,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bad Manners,
Pagans,
Silicon Teens,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ten City,
Japan,
Connie Case,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Vladislav Delay,
Unwound,
Glenn Branca,
Section 25,
Boredoms,
U.S. Maple,
the Swans,
Bobby Womack,
Soft Cell,
ABC,
the Fania All-Stars,
Nas,
Mars,
Gil Scott Heron,
Cybotron,
UT,
Minutemen,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Eric Copeland,
Ultra Naté,
Davy DMX,
Rosa Yemen,
Johnny Osbourne,
World's Most,
PIL,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jacob Miller,
Quadrant,
Babytalk,
Alphaville,
Cameo, Cameo, Cameo, Cameo.
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.