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 Djibouti and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew 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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Stetsasonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s 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 Cluster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
8 Eyed Spy,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Suburban Knight,
The Techniques,
The Durutti Column,
Danielle Patucci,
Aloha Tigers,
Grauzone,
Masters at Work,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Residents,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Roger Hodgson,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Misunderstood,
The Knickerbockers,
Liliput,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Delta 5,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Anakelly,
kango's stein massive,
Guru Guru,
Eric B and Rakim,
New Age Steppers,
Ituana,
Barbara Tucker,
Donny Hathaway,
The Toasters,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eve St. Jones,
Sonny Sharrock,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Cure,
Section 25,
The Last Poets,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Circle Jerks,
Talk Talk,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Tomorrow,
the Germs,
Monks,
Con Funk Shun,
Fear,
The Blues Magoos,
Gang Gang Dance,
Robert Wyatt,
Niagra,
Das Ding,
Ronan,
Los Fastidios,
Cal Tjader,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gang Starr,
Black Pus,
Peter & Gordon,
Marcia Griffiths,
Juan Atkins,
Steve Hackett,
Deadbeat,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.