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 Lebanon and from Manchester.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Essential Logic to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish. All the underground hits.
All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
Buzzcocks,
Boz Scaggs,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
John Cale,
Monks,
World's Most,
Morten Harket,
Susan Cadogan,
Black Sheep,
Pantytec,
The Star Department,
Procol Harum,
KRS-One,
The Dave Clark Five,
Deepchord,
Eli Mardock,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
D'Angelo,
June Days,
The Names,
Amon Düül II,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Minutemen,
F. McDonald,
The Knickerbockers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Shadows of Knight,
Amazonics,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fad Gadget,
Derrick Morgan,
Lebanon Hanover,
Popol Vuh,
The Doobie Brothers,
Zero Boys,
Camouflage,
Bad Manners,
Letta Mbulu,
a-ha,
The Evens,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Second Layer,
The Pop Group,
Yazoo,
Toni Rubio,
The Misunderstood,
Scan 7,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Silicon Teens,
Trumans Water,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gichy Dan,
Yaz,
Bang On A Can,
Fatback Band,
Moby Grape,
The Stooges,
Radiohead,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.