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 Sweden and from Manchester.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oppenheimer Analysis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Motorama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Guru Guru,
the Fania All-Stars,
Dark Day,
Agent Orange,
Lower 48,
Infiniti,
Parry Music,
Scan 7,
Dawn Penn,
Public Image Ltd.,
Junior Murvin,
Kerrie Biddell,
Grandmaster Flash,
MC5,
PIL,
Matthew Halsall,
Quadrant,
Al Stewart,
Livin' Joy,
Gong,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gastr Del Sol,
Joey Negro,
Marine Girls,
Severed Heads,
Pere Ubu,
The Names,
The Blackbyrds,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Golliwogs,
The Selecter,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ponytail,
Joyce Sims,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Stetsasonic,
The Tremeloes,
The Velvet Underground,
Boz Scaggs,
Stockholm Monsters,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Silicon Teens,
Spoonie Gee,
The Neon Judgement,
Freddie Wadling,
John Lydon,
Kurtis Blow,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
World's Most,
The Misunderstood,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Doors,
Kool Moe Dee,
Connie Case,
La Düsseldorf,
Eve St. Jones,
Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.
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.