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 Malaysia and from Lyon.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar 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 Royal Family And The Poor to the rap 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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
La Düsseldorf,
Trumans Water,
Mad Mike,
Newcleus,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Radio Birdman,
The Red Krayola,
The Standells,
Bauhaus,
The Monks,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lalo Schifrin,
Junior Murvin,
The J.B.'s,
Piero Umiliani,
Pantytec,
Bill Near,
Easy Going,
Ten City,
Eric Dolphy,
Crispy Ambulance,
Section 25,
Pantaleimon,
Monks,
Matthew Bourne,
Boogie Down Productions,
Suicide,
Eddi Front,
Drexciya,
David Bowie,
The Birthday Party,
Public Enemy,
Throbbing Gristle,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Popol Vuh,
The Blues Magoos,
Cluster,
John Coltrane,
The Vogues,
the Sonics,
cv313,
Anthony Braxton,
Flamin' Groovies,
Steve Hackett,
Sixth Finger,
Liliput,
Bob Dylan,
Groovy Waters,
The Fuzztones,
Susan Cadogan,
Arcadia,
The Count Five,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sparks,
Mandrill,
Sandy B,
The Angels of Light,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Tears for Fears,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Real Kids,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.