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 Laos and from Glasgow.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
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 Organ to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Black Dice. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bauhaus,
Ken Boothe,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lower 48,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Misunderstood,
The Count Five,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kevin Saunderson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hoover,
KRS-One,
Echospace,
Deepchord,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Pulsallama,
Ornette Coleman,
The Monochrome Set,
The Dirtbombs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gang Starr,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Roxy Music,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Fluxion,
Nils Olav,
Leonard Cohen,
The Offenders,
Pylon,
EPMD,
The Seeds,
The Zeros,
Quantec,
Adolescents,
Loose Ends,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gil Scott Heron,
Agitation Free,
The Detroit Cobras,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Standells,
Mission of Burma,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Steve Hackett,
10cc,
Pagans,
Curtis Mayfield,
Newcleus,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Moleskins,
Shuggie Otis,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Fugazi,
The Selecter,
New York Dolls,
Rhythm & Sound,
Derrick Morgan,
Popol Vuh,
Prince Buster,
Aloha Tigers,
Ten City,
Amazonics, Amazonics, Amazonics, Amazonics.
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.