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 Brunei and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 chamberlin 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 Q and Not U to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy's Rubber Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Selecter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erasure,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Human League,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Motorama,
H. Thieme,
The Seeds,
Delta 5,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ossler,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Flesh Eaters,
Rufus Thomas,
Grandmaster Flash,
Piero Umiliani,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Basic Channel,
The Saints,
Danielle Patucci,
Mr. Review,
Country Teasers,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Von Mondo,
Oneida,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Susan Cadogan,
Bootsy Collins,
Anthony Braxton,
FM Einheit,
Audionom,
Stetsasonic,
Kas Product,
Bobby Womack,
Magma,
Scott Walker,
The Velvet Underground,
Scientists,
Panda Bear,
Lightning Bolt,
Dead Boys,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Aural Exciters,
Swell Maps,
Television,
Rod Modell,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Fall,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Jeff Lynne,
Malaria!,
Tomorrow,
Bill Near,
Intrusion,
The Five Americans,
DJ Style,
Delon & Dalcan,
Porter Ricks,
Prince Buster,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Dirtbombs, The Dirtbombs, The Dirtbombs, The Dirtbombs.
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.