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 Bologna.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Tehran.
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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Josef K to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
D'Angelo,
Bronski Beat,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Mars,
Soft Cell,
Theoretical Girls,
Talk Talk,
Motorama,
Excepter,
The Fire Engines,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Sound,
LL Cool J,
Qualms,
T.S.O.L.,
Bob Dylan,
Brand Nubian,
The Gun Club,
The Real Kids,
Eric Dolphy,
Derrick Morgan,
The Dave Clark Five,
Eli Mardock,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Smiths,
Can,
Moss Icon,
Marvin Gaye,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Urselle,
Sam Rivers,
The Cure,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Fugs,
The Busters,
Tomorrow,
Gang of Four,
Wolf Eyes,
Scrapy,
The Black Dice,
The Selecter,
Sonny Sharrock,
Barbara Tucker,
Joensuu 1685,
Black Flag,
The Toasters,
Fatback Band,
Amon Düül,
Bizarre Inc.,
Joe Finger,
Liliput,
Throbbing Gristle,
MC5,
Jeff Lynne,
Deepchord,
Wings,
Brass Construction,
Faraquet,
Radiohead,
Audionom,
Minnie Riperton,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.