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 Laos and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 rhodes 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 Massinfluence 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 John Lydon. All the underground hits.
All Youth Brigade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Invisible record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Half Japanese,
Sandy B,
Godley & Creme,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Matthew Halsall,
Ronan,
Sight & Sound,
Bill Near,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Deadbeat,
Laurel Aitken,
Japan,
Bush Tetras,
Isaac Hayes,
Erasure,
Pierre Henry,
Silicon Teens,
Vainqueur,
The Associates,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Neu!,
Barbara Tucker,
Joe Smooth,
David Axelrod,
Audionom,
Junior Murvin,
The Mummies,
Magazine,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Erykah Badu,
Scan 7,
Prince Buster,
The Toasters,
Dual Sessions,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Inner City,
U.S. Maple,
Jeru the Damaja,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Moody Blues,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Pretty Things,
The Dave Clark Five,
Soft Cell,
Eddi Front,
Black Sheep,
Bizarre Inc.,
Glenn Branca,
Mandrill,
Kenny Larkin,
New Order,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rapeman,
Electric Prunes,
Arcadia,
Rites of Spring,
Eurythmics,
Crooked Eye,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sixth Finger,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.