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 Bangladesh and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 synthesizer 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 Con Funk Shun to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gian Franco Pienzio. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Wake record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Ornette Coleman,
Adolescents,
The Human League,
Siglo XX,
Nirvana,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Simply Red,
Bluetip,
Wings,
Rotary Connection,
The Offenders,
MDC,
Joy Division,
Michelle Simonal,
a-ha,
Tim Buckley,
These Immortal Souls,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Donald Byrd,
Rod Modell,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Saccharine Trust,
Duran Duran,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Henry Cow,
Robert Wyatt,
Brick,
Infiniti,
The Move,
Nico,
The Standells,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Gories,
Skriet,
Arcadia,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Khruangbin,
Lakeside,
Urselle,
Excepter,
Crash Course in Science,
The Slackers,
John Cale,
Sex Pistols,
Fatback Band,
The Neon Judgement,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
FM Einheit,
Talk Talk,
Cheater Slicks,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Pretty Things,
David Bowie,
Soulsonic Force,
Soft Cell,
the Association,
H. Thieme,
Wire,
Suicide,
Ohio Players,
Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack.
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.