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 France and from Mexico City.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Shadows of Knight to the punk 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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marine Girls,
Das Ding,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Wings,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Scion,
Brick,
Royal Trux,
Lucky Dragons,
Au Pairs,
Pole,
Michelle Simonal,
Terry Callier,
Grauzone,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Tim Buckley,
Motorama,
Depeche Mode,
Quando Quango,
The Last Poets,
Aswad,
Spandau Ballet,
Josef K,
Franke,
Rekid,
Moby Grape,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sonic Youth,
Surgeon,
Pulsallama,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Sisters of Mercy,
B.T. Express,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
John Lydon,
The Misunderstood,
Roxy Music,
Alice Coltrane,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Pagans,
The Pretty Things,
Second Layer,
Deepchord,
OOIOO,
Scratch Acid,
Minor Threat,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Easy Going,
Althea and Donna,
Ralphi Rosario,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Amon Düül II,
10cc,
Johnny Clarke,
Rosa Yemen,
Terrestrial Tones,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Supertramp,
MDC,
Warren Ellis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.