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 Lebanon and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Human League to the rock 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 The Vogues. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Symarip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Sugar Minott,
Soul Sonic Force,
Letta Mbulu,
Radiopuhelimet,
Zero Boys,
Symarip,
Maleditus Sound,
Public Enemy,
The Mighty Diamonds,
China Crisis,
Connie Case,
Deadbeat,
The Saints,
Lungfish,
John Lydon,
Yaz,
Quantec,
Groovy Waters,
Tres Demented,
The Modern Lovers,
The Moleskins,
10cc,
The Standells,
Swell Maps,
The Shadows of Knight,
Hashim,
Bizarre Inc.,
the Normal,
Minny Pops,
Sister Nancy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ice-T,
Mandrill,
Glambeats Corp.,
Robert Görl,
Suburban Knight,
Procol Harum,
Fad Gadget,
Fat Boys,
Aaron Thompson,
Agitation Free,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kevin Saunderson,
U.S. Maple,
The Gories,
Girls At Our Best!,
Intrusion,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cybotron,
The Red Krayola,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Idris Muhammad,
The Busters,
Jerry's Kids,
Erasure,
Ken Boothe,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Duran Duran,
The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues.
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.