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 Romania and from Mexico City.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Marshall Jefferson 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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Model 500 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
The Buckinghams,
Dual Sessions,
Bauhaus,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
kango's stein massive,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Camberwell Now,
Al Stewart,
Silicon Teens,
Ituana,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Model 500,
The Standells,
The Offenders,
Freddie Wadling,
Mantronix,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Cure,
Pere Ubu,
Lakeside,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Robert Hood,
The Count Five,
Roxette,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Popol Vuh,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Donny Hathaway,
Pylon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Moleskins,
The Neon Judgement,
Howard Jones,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Excepter,
The Dave Clark Five,
Todd Rundgren,
The Moody Blues,
Metal Thangz,
Urselle,
Prince Buster,
Underground Resistance,
Gerry Rafferty,
Suicide,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Stooges,
Scrapy,
MDC,
Sugar Minott,
Boz Scaggs,
The Fall,
Bootsy Collins,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Funky Four + One,
Wings,
Massinfluence,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.