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 Slovenia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Kenny Larkin to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Lonnie Liston Smith. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Standells,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Subhumans,
Ossler,
The Barracudas,
Buzzcocks,
Pylon,
The Buckinghams,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Michelle Simonal,
Funky Four + One,
Gil Scott Heron,
Stereo Dub,
The Real Kids,
The Grass Roots,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Barry Ungar,
Arthur Verocai,
The Mojo Men,
David Axelrod,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Colin Newman,
Country Teasers,
Isaac Hayes,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
DNA,
Ludus,
Morten Harket,
Jacques Brel,
Bronski Beat,
Unrelated Segments,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Scientists,
Kurtis Blow,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Skaos,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Brass Construction,
Accadde A,
Rapeman,
The Doors,
R.M.O.,
The Misunderstood,
Sparks,
Bob Dylan,
The Velvet Underground,
Q65,
Donny Hathaway,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Hardrive,
The Birthday Party,
Flipper,
Metal Thangz,
The Wake,
Hot Snakes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Au Pairs,
Nils Olav,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya.
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.