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 Belize and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 808 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 the Germs to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All Mission of Burma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James White and The Blacks,
Lebanon Hanover,
Throbbing Gristle,
Wally Richardson,
Frankie Knuckles,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Tremeloes,
The Dead C,
The Detroit Cobras,
Rufus Thomas,
Jacques Brel,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Durutti Column,
Sun City Girls,
Chris & Cosey,
Robert Görl,
Roger Hodgson,
The Cure,
The Divine Comedy,
Gang of Four,
Heaven 17,
Joe Smooth,
Rhythm & Sound,
Joyce Sims,
Essential Logic,
Idris Muhammad,
Bad Manners,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Mission of Burma,
Matthew Halsall,
Radiohead,
Boredoms,
The Blackbyrds,
Laurel Aitken,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Techniques,
Barclay James Harvest,
Yaz,
The Doobie Brothers,
cv313,
Theoretical Girls,
Monolake,
Gil Scott Heron,
Nick Fraelich,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Fortunes,
Ludus,
Stetsasonic,
the Germs,
Oblivians,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Infiniti,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw.
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.