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 Luxembourg and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Houston.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Vladislav Delay to the funk 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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Chris & Cosey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New York Dolls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
The Pretty Things,
The Saints,
The Raincoats,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cybotron,
Kas Product,
Aloha Tigers,
Marvin Gaye,
The Grass Roots,
The Cowsills,
Brass Construction,
Terry Callier,
EPMD,
X-102,
Man Eating Sloth,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Agent Orange,
Kerrie Biddell,
Carl Craig,
Soulsonic Force,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Skarface,
The Standells,
The Flesh Eaters,
Model 500,
Slave,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sam Rivers,
The Gap Band,
Suburban Knight,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Wings,
Crash Course in Science,
E-Dancer,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kool Moe Dee,
Average White Band,
Amon Düül II,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Royal Trux,
World's Most,
Underground Resistance,
Von Mondo,
Grey Daturas,
Derrick Morgan,
Pharoah Sanders,
Theoretical Girls,
Negative Approach,
T.S.O.L.,
Youth Brigade,
Malaria!,
David McCallum,
The Pop Group,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
MDC,
Sonic Youth,
Camouflage,
Skaos,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.