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 Sweden and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Manchester.
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 rhodes 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 Bobby Sherman to the grime 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hoover,
The Blues Magoos,
Con Funk Shun,
Jesper Dahlback,
the Human League,
Trumans Water,
Main Source,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Japan,
Pere Ubu,
the Fania All-Stars,
Gong,
Loose Ends,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Searchers,
Archie Shepp,
Patti Smith,
Q and Not U,
Gastr Del Sol,
Aural Exciters,
Babytalk,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pharoah Sanders,
Black Bananas,
Barbara Tucker,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Essential Logic,
Eric B and Rakim,
Absolute Body Control,
Tears for Fears,
Suburban Knight,
Crooked Eye,
The Dave Clark Five,
Technova,
Agent Orange,
Fugazi,
Neu!,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Judy Mowatt,
Desert Stars,
Skarface,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Nirvana,
Gang Gang Dance,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pagans,
The Fuzztones,
Simply Red,
R.M.O.,
Cheater Slicks,
Reagan Youth,
Kurtis Blow,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ituana,
Peter & Gordon,
China Crisis,
Parry Music,
Black Flag,
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.