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 Cuba and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 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 Black Pus to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sound. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sister Nancy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Sugar Minott,
ABC,
Underground Resistance,
X-102,
China Crisis,
June Days,
Roxy Music,
The Neon Judgement,
Sun Ra,
The Moody Blues,
Tomorrow,
John Coltrane,
Lucky Dragons,
Rufus Thomas,
The Skatalites,
Amazonics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Judy Mowatt,
Fugazi,
Popol Vuh,
Jeff Mills,
H. Thieme,
The Selecter,
Girls At Our Best!,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Supertramp,
Dorothy Ashby,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ultra Naté,
The American Breed,
Morten Harket,
Au Pairs,
Bobby Womack,
Slick Rick,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soul II Soul,
Alphaville,
Duran Duran,
The Last Poets,
Colin Newman,
Mantronix,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
CMW,
Jeff Lynne,
Grandmaster Flash,
Amon Düül II,
Donny Hathaway,
Junior Murvin,
PIL,
Rapeman,
June of 44,
T.S.O.L.,
The Dirtbombs,
The Index,
Motorama,
The Music Machine,
Tres Demented,
Pharoah Sanders,
Urselle,
Shuggie Otis,
Thee Headcoats,
Fear, Fear, Fear, Fear.
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.