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 Papua New Guinea and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 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 Young Marble Giants to the techno 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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lightning Bolt 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Royal Trux,
The Black Dice,
Joensuu 1685,
DJ Sneak,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sugar Minott,
Letta Mbulu,
Banda Bassotti,
Adolescents,
The Vogues,
Section 25,
The Fugs,
Groovy Waters,
Kevin Saunderson,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
10cc,
Malaria!,
Pole,
Derrick Morgan,
L. Decosne,
The New Christs,
New Age Steppers,
The Electric Prunes,
Boredoms,
Joey Negro,
Hot Snakes,
Eurythmics,
Bill Wells,
Funkadelic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Mummies,
Connie Case,
Kenny Larkin,
Kool Moe Dee,
Steve Hackett,
Roger Hodgson,
Fluxion,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Godley & Creme,
Erykah Badu,
Q65,
Eden Ahbez,
Bill Near,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kayak,
The Shadows of Knight,
Wire,
Howard Jones,
Lou Reed,
The Kinks,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Happenings,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ten City,
Terry Callier,
Flamin' Groovies,
Matthew Halsall,
New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls.
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.