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 Papua New Guinea and from Portland.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Altered Images to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cluster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lindisfarne,
The Cure,
Quantec,
Darondo,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Monks,
Dual Sessions,
The Wake,
Nik Kershaw,
Shuggie Otis,
Chris Corsano,
Glambeats Corp.,
Half Japanese,
Camouflage,
The Toasters,
Television,
Ossler,
The Human League,
Vladislav Delay,
Surgeon,
The Velvet Underground,
Eric Dolphy,
Can,
Dead Boys,
Sonic Youth,
Silicon Teens,
Ronnie Foster,
The Busters,
Dawn Penn,
Marine Girls,
Jeff Mills,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Cosmic Jokers,
the Soft Cell,
Hardrive,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Angry Samoans,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bob Dylan,
Sällskapet,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sister Nancy,
Deadbeat,
Minor Threat,
Minutemen,
Theoretical Girls,
X-102,
The Alarm Clocks,
Mark Hollis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jesper Dahlback,
Scion,
Negative Approach,
Royal Trux,
Ponytail,
John Foxx,
Fatback Band,
FM Einheit,
The Red Krayola,
Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims.
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.