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 Ireland and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 David Bowie 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 L. Decosne to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Funky Four + One. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
10cc,
Barbara Tucker,
David McCallum,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rufus Thomas,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eve St. Jones,
Jeru the Damaja,
Saccharine Trust,
The Fire Engines,
Blake Baxter,
Radiopuhelimet,
Technova,
The Electric Prunes,
Massinfluence,
Brass Construction,
Nas,
T.S.O.L.,
Leonard Cohen,
Aswad,
Brand Nubian,
Camouflage,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Divine Comedy,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Crispy Ambulance,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Khruangbin,
K-Klass,
the Normal,
Country Teasers,
Eric Dolphy,
The Detroit Cobras,
Main Source,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gang Starr,
Pylon,
Moby Grape,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Davy DMX,
Black Moon,
The Busters,
The Knickerbockers,
Blossom Toes,
A Certain Ratio,
Sister Nancy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Happenings,
Drexciya,
This Heat,
Reagan Youth,
a-ha,
Hashim,
Duran Duran,
Grauzone,
Hot Snakes,
Lungfish,
Popol Vuh,
Monolake,
Spoonie Gee,
Newcleus,
Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound.
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.