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 Chad and from Seoul.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Lower 48 to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy's Rubber Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barclay James Harvest record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Derrick Morgan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
LL Cool J,
Junior Murvin,
Kas Product,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Standells,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sällskapet,
The Victims,
The Count Five,
Urselle,
Spoonie Gee,
Duran Duran,
Yazoo,
Wings,
Johnny Osbourne,
Marine Girls,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Marshall Jefferson,
The New Christs,
Sound Behaviour,
Zapp,
Gerry Rafferty,
Intrusion,
Marcia Griffiths,
DJ Style,
The Blues Magoos,
Tom Boy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lakeside,
Wire,
The Smoke,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Technova,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Joey Negro,
Fatback Band,
Malaria!,
Rod Modell,
The Gap Band,
Ronnie Foster,
Japan,
Bobby Womack,
Jacques Brel,
James White and The Blacks,
the Germs,
Deepchord,
Thee Headcoats,
The Blackbyrds,
Pantaleimon,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Gun Club,
Minny Pops,
Slick Rick,
Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti.
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.