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 Germany and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Philadelphia.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Zero Boys to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Invisible. All the underground hits.
All The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Real Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers,
Matthew Bourne,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Dead C,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ossler,
The Modern Lovers,
The Fuzztones,
Frankie Knuckles,
Average White Band,
Schoolly D,
Rod Modell,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Cecil Taylor,
Roxy Music,
Moebius,
Joe Smooth,
Dennis Brown,
The United States of America,
Agitation Free,
Gerry Rafferty,
Todd Terry,
Q and Not U,
Eric B and Rakim,
KRS-One,
Black Sheep,
Talk Talk,
Pierre Henry,
Minutemen,
Au Pairs,
Faust,
Quadrant,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lower 48,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
New Age Steppers,
Brass Construction,
The Fugs,
Monolake,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Residents,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Duran Duran,
The Searchers,
The Happenings,
Amon Düül II,
The Walker Brothers,
Jeff Lynne,
X-102,
Outsiders,
The Last Poets,
The Smoke,
Prince Buster,
Masters at Work,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Suburban Knight,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band.
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.