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 Latvia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Buzzcocks to the dance 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 Shuggie Otis. All the underground hits.
All Mary Jane Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Electric Prunes 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?
Kool Moe Dee,
Dark Day,
Simply Red,
Jeff Mills,
Fugazi,
Gong,
Albert Ayler,
Zero Boys,
Kaleidoscope,
Bang On A Can,
Groovy Waters,
Electric Prunes,
Danielle Patucci,
Loose Ends,
Junior Murvin,
Lou Reed,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fad Gadget,
Donny Hathaway,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
David McCallum,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Grass Roots,
Eric B and Rakim,
David Bowie,
Eric Copeland,
Index,
Los Fastidios,
The Saints,
Soul II Soul,
Wally Richardson,
Dual Sessions,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Moody Blues,
The Barracudas,
June of 44,
Suburban Knight,
Sonic Youth,
Rhythm & Sound,
R.M.O.,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Dead Boys,
The Detroit Cobras,
Minnie Riperton,
Alice Coltrane,
Mary Jane Girls,
Pussy Galore,
L. Decosne,
The Martian,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Scott Walker,
Minor Threat,
June Days,
Pylon,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Electric Prunes,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.