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 Cyprus and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Gap Band to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Marvin Gaye. All the underground hits.
All The Evens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Invisible record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
Cymande,
The Gap Band,
X-Ray Spex,
Eurythmics,
Delta 5,
Carl Craig,
Grauzone,
Roger Hodgson,
Marvin Gaye,
The Trojans,
Rotary Connection,
The Happenings,
A Certain Ratio,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
One Last Wish,
Kerrie Biddell,
Agitation Free,
Technova,
Matthew Bourne,
Reuben Wilson,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Alarm Clocks,
Chrome,
Gichy Dan,
Crispy Ambulance,
Soul II Soul,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Man Eating Sloth,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Index,
Talk Talk,
The Buckinghams,
Nils Olav,
Lakeside,
Hot Snakes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
London Community Gospel Choir,
MC5,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
In Retrospect,
The Moody Blues,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Moebius,
Big Daddy Kane,
8 Eyed Spy,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Deakin,
Metal Thangz,
Ronnie Foster,
The Cowsills,
Bob Dylan,
Television Personalities,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Golliwogs,
The Barracudas,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Soft Cell,
Tim Buckley,
The J.B.'s,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.