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 Solomon Islands and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Jakarta.
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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 MC5 to the dance 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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Girls At Our Best! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fortunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Spoonie Gee,
Easy Going,
Clear Light,
Mad Mike,
Joensuu 1685,
DNA,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Quadrant,
Fatback Band,
The American Breed,
Rufus Thomas,
Quando Quango,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Schoolly D,
Scott Walker,
ABC,
Ronnie Foster,
The Cowsills,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
FM Einheit,
Agent Orange,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The New Christs,
The Standells,
Bobby Byrd,
Magazine,
Fluxion,
UT,
Wasted Youth,
The Count Five,
Fugazi,
Symarip,
Peter and Kerry,
Grauzone,
Colin Newman,
Cymande,
Silicon Teens,
Rakim,
Bluetip,
Scientists,
The Walker Brothers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Erykah Badu,
Fear,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lebanon Hanover,
Little Man,
Jeru the Damaja,
John Lydon,
Terry Callier,
The Gap Band,
Crash Course in Science,
Joyce Sims,
Dave Gahan,
Leonard Cohen,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sandy B,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Laurel Aitken,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Mighty Diamonds,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.