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 Liberia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 organ 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 Dennis Brown to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 UT. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cabaret Voltaire,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Cure,
Davy DMX,
The Star Department,
Mary Jane Girls,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Camberwell Now,
The Shadows of Knight,
Janne Schatter,
The Pop Group,
The Fall,
The Tremeloes,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Velvet Underground,
Archie Shepp,
Lyres,
David Bowie,
Johnny Clarke,
the Bar-Kays,
Robert Wyatt,
Rhythm & Sound,
Surgeon,
Minutemen,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Patti Smith,
Lakeside,
Rakim,
New Order,
The Leaves,
The Doors,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Vogues,
10cc,
Althea and Donna,
The Neon Judgement,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Fortunes,
The Blackbyrds,
Sarah Menescal,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Monochrome Set,
Panda Bear,
Sällskapet,
Godley & Creme,
Reagan Youth,
The Fugs,
Quando Quango,
Neu!,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Dirtbombs,
Harmonia,
Public Enemy,
Sam Rivers,
Erasure,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moss Icon,
Ice-T,
Jeru the Damaja,
Hoover, Hoover, Hoover, Hoover.
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.