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 Uruguay and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 Manila and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Little Man to the punk 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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Beasts of Bourbon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lightning Bolt,
Alphaville,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Franke,
Audionom,
The Gladiators,
Soft Cell,
Charles Mingus,
Barry Ungar,
Bob Dylan,
Eurythmics,
Adolescents,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Hoover,
Subhumans,
FM Einheit,
Scrapy,
The Young Rascals,
Wasted Youth,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Amon Düül II,
Cal Tjader,
Lower 48,
Darondo,
Camberwell Now,
Harmonia,
Brand Nubian,
The Leaves,
Ralphi Rosario,
June of 44,
Spandau Ballet,
Tropical Tobacco,
Shuggie Otis,
Kerrie Biddell,
Pulsallama,
Jacques Brel,
The Cure,
Youth Brigade,
Bronski Beat,
Suburban Knight,
Boz Scaggs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Public Image Ltd.,
Leonard Cohen,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bill Wells,
Pagans,
The Gap Band,
The Grass Roots,
Dennis Brown,
Nirvana,
Rekid,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.