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 Spain and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 guitar 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 Tubeway Army to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Kinks. All the underground hits.
All The Red Krayola tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monks 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 '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 Infiniti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Techniques,
Ultra Naté,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
John Coltrane,
Japan,
Unwound,
K-Klass,
L. Decosne,
Dave Gahan,
Robert Hood,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mars,
The Wake,
Theoretical Girls,
Tropical Tobacco,
Marvin Gaye,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Au Pairs,
Man Eating Sloth,
Ossler,
Hasil Adkins,
The Remains,
Yusef Lateef,
The Knickerbockers,
Soul II Soul,
The Smiths,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Marine Girls,
Archie Shepp,
Fat Boys,
Junior Murvin,
Wasted Youth,
Quantec,
Ken Boothe,
This Heat,
Lungfish,
Max Romeo,
Hashim,
Robert Görl,
Ronnie Foster,
Jeff Mills,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kenny Larkin,
Ralphi Rosario,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Monolake,
Althea and Donna,
U.S. Maple,
Nas,
The Offenders,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Basic Channel,
Donny Hathaway,
the Soft Cell,
Sight & Sound,
Depeche Mode,
Bootsy Collins,
Bobby Sherman,
Mandrill,
Altered Images,
Eve St. Jones,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.