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 Sudan and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Pretty Things to the disco 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 Morten Harket. All the underground hits.
All Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marvin Gaye record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Brand Nubian,
Zero Boys,
Essential Logic,
The Beau Brummels,
Heaven 17,
Crooked Eye,
Outsiders,
Black Bananas,
Angry Samoans,
Mission of Burma,
Rod Modell,
China Crisis,
Blossom Toes,
UT,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Minny Pops,
The American Breed,
Eric Dolphy,
Kayak,
The Angels of Light,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Supertramp,
Grey Daturas,
Warren Ellis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Easy Going,
Stiv Bators,
ABBA,
The United States of America,
Traffic Nightmare,
Quando Quango,
Howard Jones,
Amon Düül,
Tomorrow,
Radiohead,
Arcadia,
Qualms,
The Gap Band,
The Cure,
Model 500,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Pop Group,
Gil Scott Heron,
One Last Wish,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Radiopuhelimet,
Make Up,
The Electric Prunes,
Alton Ellis,
Slave,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lalann,
Unrelated Segments,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Delta 5,
Sam Rivers,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
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.