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 Germany and from Manchester.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 a-ha to the punk 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 The Doors. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Henry Cow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
D'Angelo,
Brick,
The Raincoats,
Black Sheep,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Peter & Gordon,
The Last Poets,
Hot Snakes,
Model 500,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Barbara Tucker,
Flash Fearless,
Television,
The Count Five,
The Litter,
MDC,
The Grass Roots,
Von Mondo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Stereo Dub,
The Cure,
Nirvana,
Excepter,
Second Layer,
Funkadelic,
Fluxion,
Hoover,
The New Christs,
Robert Hood,
The Leaves,
Skriet,
The Black Dice,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Scientists,
The Index,
Leonard Cohen,
Lebanon Hanover,
Scott Walker,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Alphaville,
The Beau Brummels,
Idris Muhammad,
The Dave Clark Five,
Marshall Jefferson,
U.S. Maple,
Tom Boy,
Bootsy Collins,
Buzzcocks,
Ronan,
Reuben Wilson,
John Cale,
Dark Day,
Wally Richardson,
Dawn Penn,
Deadbeat,
Pussy Galore,
Lalo Schifrin,
Metal Thangz,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.