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 Zimbabwe and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 synthesizer 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 Pulsallama to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Christie 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agent Orange,
Kool Moe Dee,
Eden Ahbez,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Knickerbockers,
8 Eyed Spy,
Cybotron,
Radiopuhelimet,
Theoretical Girls,
Alison Limerick,
Magazine,
Ultravox,
Easy Going,
Skriet,
The Young Rascals,
Sparks,
Can,
Mars,
Outsiders,
Warren Ellis,
the Bar-Kays,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Mandrill,
The Modern Lovers,
Crime,
Trumans Water,
The Five Americans,
EPMD,
Bang On A Can,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Techniques,
Todd Terry,
Matthew Halsall,
Suburban Knight,
World's Most,
Bluetip,
Gong,
Boogie Down Productions,
Excepter,
Pylon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Slits,
The Offenders,
Jimmy McGriff,
Eve St. Jones,
Blossom Toes,
Franke,
The Motions,
Soft Cell,
Donny Hathaway,
The Black Dice,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Marine Girls,
Dave Gahan,
Dennis Brown,
Nico,
FM Einheit,
the Slits,
Rekid,
Glenn Branca,
Minor Threat,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo.
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.