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 Greece and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 Winnipeg and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 harpsichord 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 Rotary Connection to the techno 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flamin' Groovies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
June of 44,
Gichy Dan,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The United States of America,
Con Funk Shun,
Little Man,
The Doobie Brothers,
These Immortal Souls,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Tremeloes,
Public Enemy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Dave Clark Five,
Nico,
Amazonics,
Barbara Tucker,
The Fortunes,
Schoolly D,
Hasil Adkins,
Lou Christie,
The Shadows of Knight,
Aural Exciters,
John Coltrane,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
James White and The Blacks,
Black Flag,
the Swans,
Kerrie Biddell,
Cameo,
Quadrant,
New York Dolls,
Young Marble Giants,
The Gap Band,
Boz Scaggs,
The Litter,
The Velvet Underground,
Donny Hathaway,
Trumans Water,
The Wake,
Rod Modell,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Motions,
Fad Gadget,
Dave Gahan,
Funkadelic,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Goldenarms,
Black Bananas,
David McCallum,
Panda Bear,
Graham Central Station,
Minnie Riperton,
Mark Hollis,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Von Mondo,
The Trojans,
Make Up,
The Busters,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.