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 Panama and from Madrid.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Pagans to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moss Icon 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cymande,
Judy Mowatt,
Ronan,
Visage,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Blackbyrds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ice-T,
Graham Central Station,
Sixth Finger,
X-101,
Excepter,
Circle Jerks,
These Immortal Souls,
The Music Machine,
Rekid,
Maurizio,
Young Marble Giants,
Kaleidoscope,
Joy Division,
Schoolly D,
Sound Behaviour,
Skarface,
Big Daddy Kane,
Public Image Ltd.,
Can,
Robert Görl,
Public Enemy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Brick,
The Knickerbockers,
Suicide,
Adolescents,
Pantytec,
Spoonie Gee,
Supertramp,
Neil Young,
Fluxion,
Maleditus Sound,
Jeff Mills,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Wire,
Nico,
Vainqueur,
Basic Channel,
Bronski Beat,
the Human League,
Moss Icon,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
the Sonics,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The United States of America,
Theoretical Girls,
Fat Boys,
The Star Department,
Agent Orange,
Barrington Levy,
LL Cool J,
The Birthday Party,
Al Stewart,
The Mummies,
X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex.
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.