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 Costa Rica and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 guitar 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 Black Moon to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Mars. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moleskins,
Faraquet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fear,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Junior Murvin,
Idris Muhammad,
Marine Girls,
Peter and Kerry,
Pantytec,
The Motions,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Red Krayola,
Jacob Miller,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jeff Mills,
Scrapy,
Tres Demented,
Terrestrial Tones,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Dennis Brown,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Stiv Bators,
Adolescents,
the Bar-Kays,
The Invisible,
Bootsy Collins,
Basic Channel,
the Germs,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Donny Hathaway,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Toni Rubio,
Bobby Byrd,
Theoretical Girls,
Nick Fraelich,
Eddi Front,
Marvin Gaye,
Yazoo,
Derrick Morgan,
Grey Daturas,
Section 25,
Nico,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Cowsills,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jerry's Kids,
Clear Light,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rhythm & Sound,
Negative Approach,
The Knickerbockers,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Eve St. Jones,
Jimmy McGriff,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lakeside,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ice-T,
Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke.
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.