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 China and from Tehran.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Ponytail to the dance 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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rakim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
U.S. Maple,
The Invisible,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Animal Collective,
Negative Approach,
Ultra Naté,
Von Mondo,
Duran Duran,
Desert Stars,
Chrome,
Kool Moe Dee,
Letta Mbulu,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Iggy Pop,
Excepter,
Ultimate Spinach,
Talk Talk,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sight & Sound,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
10cc,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Altered Images,
Essential Logic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Peter & Gordon,
The Litter,
The Last Poets,
Quadrant,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Danielle Patucci,
The Black Dice,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Q65,
Goldenarms,
Technova,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kerri Chandler,
Roger Hodgson,
Soft Machine,
Main Source,
Eric Dolphy,
The Monochrome Set,
Brick,
James White and The Blacks,
The Divine Comedy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Seeds,
Anthony Braxton,
Sly & The Family Stone,
D'Angelo,
Max Romeo,
The Sonics,
Delta 5,
The Techniques,
Ossler,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Joey Negro,
Los Fastidios,
the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell.
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.