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 Korea North and from Accra.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 oboe 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 Bananas to the dance 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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronan,
Aaron Thompson,
Buzzcocks,
The Dead C,
Sällskapet,
Trumans Water,
The Knickerbockers,
Fad Gadget,
New Age Steppers,
The Leaves,
JFA,
Gong,
Bang On A Can,
Organ,
Marvin Gaye,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Das Ding,
Prince Buster,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dave Gahan,
Rosa Yemen,
Kas Product,
David Axelrod,
Sun Ra,
Urselle,
Black Moon,
Franke,
Frankie Knuckles,
Scott Walker,
Youth Brigade,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Absolute Body Control,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Yazoo,
Al Stewart,
The Invisible,
Bobby Womack,
Rufus Thomas,
Von Mondo,
The Fall,
Tim Buckley,
Althea and Donna,
Supertramp,
Television Personalities,
Rekid,
Fat Boys,
The Gap Band,
Massinfluence,
10cc,
The Walker Brothers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Mission of Burma,
Black Flag,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
X-101,
FM Einheit,
Vladislav Delay,
Sixth Finger,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.