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 Mauritania and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 marimba 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 Fat Boys to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Das Ding. All the underground hits.
All Marshall Jefferson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Parry Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Bush Tetras,
David McCallum,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Skatalites,
Television Personalities,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kenny Larkin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Drexciya,
The Blackbyrds,
Sällskapet,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Eden Ahbez,
Fear,
Young Marble Giants,
Fat Boys,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nils Olav,
Ossler,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Five Americans,
Scrapy,
The Knickerbockers,
Kaleidoscope,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Godley & Creme,
Cymande,
Dawn Penn,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Dennis Brown,
Frankie Knuckles,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jesper Dahlback,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
FM Einheit,
Laurel Aitken,
Harmonia,
The Smoke,
Alton Ellis,
Magazine,
Pantytec,
Joe Smooth,
Bad Manners,
La Düsseldorf,
The Gun Club,
The Mojo Men,
Country Teasers,
Niagra,
The Fuzztones,
Kayak,
Blossom Toes,
Average White Band,
Depeche Mode,
Underground Resistance,
Bob Dylan,
Negative Approach,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.