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 Sierra Leone and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Madrid.
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 sitar 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 Hashim to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Brick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-Ray Spex 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Fugs,
Suicide,
Todd Rundgren,
Index,
Das Ding,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Grey Daturas,
the Normal,
The Knickerbockers,
Half Japanese,
The Smiths,
Gregory Isaacs,
Essential Logic,
Tim Buckley,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bluetip,
Bootsy Collins,
Ronan,
Television Personalities,
The Mojo Men,
Johnny Clarke,
The Star Department,
Stockholm Monsters,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Schoolly D,
The Blues Magoos,
Minor Threat,
Rhythm & Sound,
John Foxx,
Crash Course in Science,
John Lydon,
The Leaves,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Babytalk,
Bush Tetras,
Television,
The Alarm Clocks,
MC5,
Can,
Parry Music,
Pantytec,
Roger Hodgson,
Deepchord,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Guru Guru,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bobby Sherman,
the Association,
Fear,
A Certain Ratio,
The Offenders,
Curtis Mayfield,
Marine Girls,
The Cramps,
Flash Fearless,
Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack.
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.