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 St Lucia and from Madrid.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the güiro 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Avey Tare,
Dark Day,
Mo-Dettes,
Fugazi,
Max Romeo,
Hardrive,
Shoche,
Massinfluence,
Lou Reed,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bauhaus,
Be Bop Deluxe,
10cc,
The Doors,
Underground Resistance,
Cybotron,
Alice Coltrane,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Guru Guru,
Tres Demented,
The Grass Roots,
Scientists,
Vladislav Delay,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Brothers Johnson,
Cluster,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Nico,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Residents,
Grandmaster Flash,
Buzzcocks,
Amon Düül II,
Brick,
The New Christs,
Prince Buster,
In Retrospect,
Deepchord,
Sandy B,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Alphaville,
Masters at Work,
Jerry's Kids,
Scan 7,
Depeche Mode,
Alton Ellis,
Al Stewart,
Henry Cow,
Funky Four + One,
Jimmy McGriff,
H. Thieme,
Charles Mingus,
Tim Buckley,
Sällskapet,
Ken Boothe,
John Holt,
Kerri Chandler,
Sonny Sharrock,
Liliput,
The Names,
Procol Harum,
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.