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 Lithuania and from Seoul.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Tropical Tobacco to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Delta 5,
Technova,
The Mummies,
Ronan,
Lower 48,
FM Einheit,
Dennis Brown,
Trumans Water,
Sun City Girls,
Black Pus,
Warren Ellis,
Model 500,
Prince Buster,
Gregory Isaacs,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Loose Ends,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Saints,
Nick Fraelich,
Soul Sonic Force,
Theoretical Girls,
Swell Maps,
The Grass Roots,
Scott Walker,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Kerri Chandler,
the Germs,
Siglo XX,
Subhumans,
Kurtis Blow,
New York Dolls,
Matthew Halsall,
Hardrive,
Camouflage,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lyres,
Ponytail,
Ronnie Foster,
Urselle,
Eurythmics,
Zapp,
Fad Gadget,
Excepter,
Shoche,
David McCallum,
Ludus,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pylon,
Sister Nancy,
Funky Four + One,
The Happenings,
Buzzcocks,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Piero Umiliani,
The Motions,
Letta Mbulu,
Saccharine Trust,
Faust,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.