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 Rwanda and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Lou Reed 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 Frankie Knuckles to the funk 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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wally Richardson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra 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?
Crime,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Arcadia,
Von Mondo,
a-ha,
Pet Shop Boys,
Janne Schatter,
Ronan,
Aloha Tigers,
Byron Stingily,
Section 25,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ohio Players,
Sound Behaviour,
Maleditus Sound,
June Days,
Cecil Taylor,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Panda Bear,
Cybotron,
Pantytec,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Agent Orange,
Sun City Girls,
Arab on Radar,
AZ,
The Stooges,
Wings,
Isaac Hayes,
Josef K,
The Grass Roots,
Young Marble Giants,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Man Parrish,
Spoonie Gee,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Music Machine,
EPMD,
Suburban Knight,
Brass Construction,
Bizarre Inc.,
Robert Wyatt,
Kerrie Biddell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Human League,
The Mojo Men,
The Velvet Underground,
Q and Not U,
Sixth Finger,
Groovy Waters,
The Monochrome Set,
E-Dancer,
Morten Harket,
Pulsallama,
Fugazi,
Nas,
Tres Demented,
Skaos,
Lower 48,
Essential Logic,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.