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 New Zealand and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 Bologna and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Visage to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Don Cherry,
Flash Fearless,
The Monks,
Pylon,
Bobby Byrd,
Swans,
Eric B and Rakim,
Connie Case,
Accadde A,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
the Association,
The Monochrome Set,
Soft Machine,
Peter and Kerry,
Procol Harum,
Soul II Soul,
Robert Wyatt,
The Mighty Diamonds,
A Certain Ratio,
Symarip,
Amon Düül II,
The Walker Brothers,
Rapeman,
Section 25,
The Standells,
EPMD,
The Skatalites,
The Saints,
The Smiths,
the Slits,
The Velvet Underground,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bronski Beat,
Piero Umiliani,
Warsaw,
Gichy Dan,
Hasil Adkins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Boredoms,
The Electric Prunes,
Crime,
Young Marble Giants,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Josef K,
Deadbeat,
The Tremeloes,
UT,
Jeff Lynne,
Brand Nubian,
Wire,
Saccharine Trust,
Q and Not U,
8 Eyed Spy,
K-Klass,
The Mojo Men,
Ituana,
Livin' Joy,
Dennis Brown,
Scan 7,
Andrew Hill,
Dorothy Ashby,
Motorama, Motorama, Motorama, Motorama.
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.