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 Johannesburg.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 organ 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 Spandau Ballet to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Aloha Tigers. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fela Kuti 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gastr Del Sol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Niagra,
AZ,
Schoolly D,
Sugar Minott,
Grey Daturas,
Warren Ellis,
Bizarre Inc.,
Swans,
Jeff Mills,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Mantronix,
Ice-T,
A Certain Ratio,
Animal Collective,
The Sonics,
Sandy B,
Cluster,
The Selecter,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Zapp,
Scrapy,
John Lydon,
The Skatalites,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Angels of Light,
Lou Christie,
Flash Fearless,
Gichy Dan,
The Barracudas,
L. Decosne,
Dual Sessions,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Velvet Underground,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Yellowson,
Tres Demented,
Sun City Girls,
Shuggie Otis,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ultravox,
Lakeside,
kango's stein massive,
Morten Harket,
Half Japanese,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Con Funk Shun,
Eyeless In Gaza,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mars,
Whodini,
DNA,
Symarip,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Pere Ubu,
Byron Stingily,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Music Machine,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.