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 Poland and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Searchers to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Leaves. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach 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 a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Peter and Kerry,
Eddi Front,
Minny Pops,
Joe Finger,
Kool Moe Dee,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ponytail,
Swell Maps,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Au Pairs,
the Sonics,
Simply Red,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Television Personalities,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Index,
Dawn Penn,
Gabor Szabo,
Jacques Brel,
Bill Wells,
The Last Poets,
Clear Light,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lebanon Hanover,
Duran Duran,
Johnny Osbourne,
Moss Icon,
B.T. Express,
Rufus Thomas,
Angry Samoans,
Slick Rick,
Funkadelic,
The American Breed,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Martian,
Lou Reed,
Alphaville,
The Five Americans,
Kurtis Blow,
The Fortunes,
Morten Harket,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Visage,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Popol Vuh,
Ohio Players,
AZ,
Tubeway Army,
Zapp,
Lalo Schifrin,
Public Image Ltd.,
Alice Coltrane,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines.
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.