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 Cambodia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes 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?
Wasted Youth,
the Human League,
Donny Hathaway,
Nation of Ulysses,
Electric Prunes,
MC5,
The Zeros,
Henry Cow,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Derrick May,
Urselle,
Bootsy Collins,
Index,
Ken Boothe,
Quando Quango,
John Foxx,
Godley & Creme,
Metal Thangz,
Q and Not U,
Mantronix,
The Blackbyrds,
Chris Corsano,
Terry Callier,
The Tremeloes,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bronski Beat,
Minny Pops,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Funky Four + One,
Barbara Tucker,
Sandy B,
The Invisible,
Slick Rick,
Gang Green,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Second Layer,
The Golliwogs,
June of 44,
Roger Hodgson,
Visage,
The Associates,
Unrelated Segments,
Kas Product,
Stetsasonic,
The Litter,
Danielle Patucci,
Little Man,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Knickerbockers,
Ornette Coleman,
Joensuu 1685,
Faraquet,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Motions,
The Techniques,
Fela Kuti,
Scratch Acid,
Organ,
The Gun Club,
Kurtis Blow,
Gang of Four,
Hashim,
Crooked Eye,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.