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 Marshall Islands and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 snare 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 Zero Boys to the funk 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 Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Pagans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chrome record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minor Threat,
Oneida,
Deadbeat,
Junior Murvin,
Tim Buckley,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cluster,
Godley & Creme,
D'Angelo,
Boredoms,
Ossler,
Delta 5,
The Cure,
Ultravox,
The Red Krayola,
Subhumans,
Pole,
Dual Sessions,
Suburban Knight,
Eden Ahbez,
Groovy Waters,
The Invisible,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Black Moon,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Vainqueur,
The Angels of Light,
Stereo Dub,
The Flesh Eaters,
Popol Vuh,
Faust,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jeff Lynne,
The Modern Lovers,
The J.B.'s,
Glambeats Corp.,
Maleditus Sound,
Bootsy Collins,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
David Bowie,
Dave Gahan,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Monks,
The Skatalites,
Lalo Schifrin,
Toni Rubio,
Flipper,
Half Japanese,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Erykah Badu,
Massinfluence,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ponytail,
Todd Terry,
Hardrive,
Monolake,
Japan,
Brass Construction,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.