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 Mauritania and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the jazz 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABBA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pole,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Q65,
Parry Music,
Bluetip,
the Germs,
China Crisis,
Neu!,
Liliput,
LL Cool J,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Duran Duran,
Little Man,
FM Einheit,
Los Fastidios,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Selecter,
Aloha Tigers,
The Birthday Party,
UT,
Bronski Beat,
10cc,
The Gories,
Jeff Lynne,
DJ Sneak,
Hashim,
Spoonie Gee,
Faraquet,
Loose Ends,
Pantytec,
Soul Sonic Force,
Drexciya,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Camberwell Now,
The Buckinghams,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Vogues,
Tommy Roe,
Kaleidoscope,
Metal Thangz,
The Cure,
the Association,
Anthony Braxton,
Dawn Penn,
The Evens,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Five Americans,
Qualms,
Wally Richardson,
Alice Coltrane,
Bobby Sherman,
The Mummies,
Carl Craig,
Swell Maps,
The Gladiators,
Zero Boys,
Buzzcocks,
Anakelly,
Tomorrow,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Don Cherry,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.