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 Malawi and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ronan to the jazz 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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funkadelic,
Neu!,
Flash Fearless,
Don Cherry,
Toni Rubio,
The Angels of Light,
cv313,
Kerri Chandler,
Mantronix,
The Victims,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Five Americans,
The Zeros,
The Monks,
Matthew Halsall,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Interpol,
Von Mondo,
Stiv Bators,
The Gories,
Ituana,
Peter & Gordon,
Shuggie Otis,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
kango's stein massive,
Hoover,
The Searchers,
Bill Near,
Deadbeat,
Mark Hollis,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Max Romeo,
Minny Pops,
Idris Muhammad,
The Count Five,
Electric Prunes,
The Slackers,
Judy Mowatt,
Qualms,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
10cc,
Rotary Connection,
Sun City Girls,
Los Fastidios,
Hot Snakes,
D'Angelo,
MDC,
Kaleidoscope,
Saccharine Trust,
One Last Wish,
The Shadows of Knight,
Supertramp,
The Grass Roots,
Bronski Beat,
The Fugs,
Wolf Eyes,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Index,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gang Green, Gang Green, Gang Green, Gang Green.
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.