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 United States and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Duran Duran to the dance 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 kango's stein massive. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sight & Sound,
Kool Moe Dee,
Excepter,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Loose Ends,
Monolake,
Animal Collective,
Joey Negro,
Connie Case,
Hashim,
Public Enemy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Liliput,
Fad Gadget,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Fall,
Television Personalities,
Main Source,
Fluxion,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Erykah Badu,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Grey Daturas,
DJ Sneak,
Pole,
Sugar Minott,
The New Christs,
Amon Düül,
Eddi Front,
Minor Threat,
Moebius,
F. McDonald,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Shadows of Knight,
Yazoo,
Amon Düül II,
Patti Smith,
Masters at Work,
Scan 7,
Cal Tjader,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Derrick May,
Jacques Brel,
Danielle Patucci,
Rites of Spring,
Aloha Tigers,
Jeff Mills,
Zapp,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Angels of Light,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Nirvana,
The Walker Brothers,
Kenny Larkin,
Brick, Brick, Brick, Brick.
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.