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 Bhutan and from Portland.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Pharoah Sanders to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Y Pants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
Derrick Morgan,
The Five Americans,
Niagra,
June Days,
Howard Jones,
The Gap Band,
Visage,
Fat Boys,
Audionom,
Altered Images,
Hasil Adkins,
Q65,
Toni Rubio,
Maurizio,
Godley & Creme,
Stereo Dub,
Nils Olav,
Fugazi,
Sexual Harrassment,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Scratch Acid,
Y Pants,
Qualms,
Infiniti,
Moss Icon,
Silicon Teens,
The United States of America,
The Neon Judgement,
Severed Heads,
Ronan,
Eric Copeland,
Gastr Del Sol,
Cybotron,
K-Klass,
Scrapy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Alton Ellis,
Blossom Toes,
Ultimate Spinach,
Q and Not U,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Cure,
Isaac Hayes,
The Moleskins,
The Selecter,
Blancmange,
Maleditus Sound,
Archie Shepp,
Yusef Lateef,
Interpol,
Lalann,
Liliput,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Vogues,
Boz Scaggs,
Can,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.