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 India and from Milan.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lyon.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the snare 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Ornette Coleman. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Music Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
Pagans,
Kaleidoscope,
The Cure,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ituana,
Patti Smith,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Pantytec,
The Velvet Underground,
World's Most,
Rosa Yemen,
The Seeds,
Pole,
Bush Tetras,
Anthony Braxton,
Audionom,
Agitation Free,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Robert Wyatt,
Dawn Penn,
Ossler,
The Beau Brummels,
Interpol,
Donny Hathaway,
Junior Murvin,
10cc,
Todd Rundgren,
Wally Richardson,
Eurythmics,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Royal Trux,
Trumans Water,
Goldenarms,
L. Decosne,
Unrelated Segments,
The Last Poets,
Quadrant,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Eli Mardock,
This Heat,
Yellowson,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Roger Hodgson,
Derrick Morgan,
The Monochrome Set,
Judy Mowatt,
The Dead C,
Hashim,
The Happenings,
Eden Ahbez,
Spandau Ballet,
Mars,
La Düsseldorf,
Intrusion,
Deepchord,
Mary Jane Girls,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Model 500,
Banda Bassotti,
Ken Boothe,
Grandmaster Flash,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.