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 Syria and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Stockholm Monsters to the punk 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 Eric B and Rakim. All the underground hits.
All The Beau Brummels 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 rock 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 synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
The Gap Band,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Simply Red,
ABC,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sixth Finger,
Faraquet,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Litter,
Jandek,
Lou Christie,
Soul Sonic Force,
Nils Olav,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Silicon Teens,
Ponytail,
Drive Like Jehu,
Eden Ahbez,
Crime,
Josef K,
Livin' Joy,
Cymande,
Nirvana,
Altered Images,
Al Stewart,
Groovy Waters,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Techniques,
Massinfluence,
Robert Wyatt,
T. Rex,
Danielle Patucci,
The Real Kids,
The Electric Prunes,
L. Decosne,
Peter & Gordon,
Schoolly D,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Agitation Free,
The Mojo Men,
Delon & Dalcan,
Audionom,
Tres Demented,
Slave,
Boredoms,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Index,
Young Marble Giants,
Stiv Bators,
The Buckinghams,
The Blackbyrds,
Robert Hood,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kayak,
Tubeway Army,
Duran Duran,
Slick Rick,
Negative Approach,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
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.