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 Sri Lanka and from Salvador.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris Corsano 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
The Last Poets,
Bush Tetras,
Pantaleimon,
The Monochrome Set,
Arab on Radar,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Soft Cell,
Ken Boothe,
Public Image Ltd.,
Glenn Branca,
The Pop Group,
The Offenders,
Audionom,
Kaleidoscope,
Skriet,
Average White Band,
Cheater Slicks,
the Soft Cell,
MDC,
Can,
The Durutti Column,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Godley & Creme,
Hashim,
Dennis Brown,
Todd Rundgren,
LL Cool J,
Icehouse,
Sparks,
Toni Rubio,
Brass Construction,
X-102,
The Gladiators,
Aswad,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sex Pistols,
Minor Threat,
The Golliwogs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gong,
Scott Walker,
John Lydon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Flipper,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ronnie Foster,
Wasted Youth,
Jacob Miller,
The Names,
Arcadia,
Heaven 17,
Deakin,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Kinks,
Sun Ra,
The Star Department,
The J.B.'s,
The Shadows of Knight,
Pierre Henry,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.