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 Croatia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish to the grime 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 The Trojans. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Hill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faraquet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Maurizio,
The Five Americans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Flesh Eaters,
Essential Logic,
Robert Wyatt,
Schoolly D,
The Gladiators,
The Barracudas,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Matthew Bourne,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Marmalade,
MDC,
Guru Guru,
The Happenings,
Fad Gadget,
K-Klass,
Electric Prunes,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Babytalk,
The Electric Prunes,
World's Most,
The Names,
Man Eating Sloth,
Simply Red,
Sparks,
Kaleidoscope,
Skriet,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Little Man,
Crime,
AZ,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Soft Machine,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Davy DMX,
Saccharine Trust,
Jerry's Kids,
Negative Approach,
Unrelated Segments,
Brick,
Reuben Wilson,
Scan 7,
The Mummies,
Lucky Dragons,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Brand Nubian,
L. Decosne,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jacques Brel,
Lungfish,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Standells,
Roy Ayers,
CMW,
The Litter,
Circle Jerks,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.