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 Slovenia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Modern Lovers to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Man Eating Sloth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians 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 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cowsills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sly & The Family Stone,
Erasure,
Dave Gahan,
Con Funk Shun,
Delon & Dalcan,
CMW,
The Busters,
New Order,
The Mojo Men,
Marshall Jefferson,
Echospace,
Black Bananas,
the Soft Cell,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Count Five,
Vladislav Delay,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Desert Stars,
FM Einheit,
kango's stein massive,
Bob Dylan,
Hasil Adkins,
Jeff Mills,
Rhythm & Sound,
Fluxion,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Slick Rick,
Wings,
Magma,
Michelle Simonal,
Maurizio,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Brothers Johnson,
The Raincoats,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Boz Scaggs,
Lakeside,
Bronski Beat,
Delta 5,
Deadbeat,
Accadde A,
Goldenarms,
Main Source,
Nas,
Brick,
Godley & Creme,
The Dave Clark Five,
Minutemen,
K-Klass,
The Gap Band,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Gun Club,
Aural Exciters,
Eric Dolphy,
The Fuzztones,
Scion,
Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade.
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.