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 United States and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the disco 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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Porter Ricks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Standells,
Crime,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The New Christs,
The Toasters,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Erasure,
The Red Krayola,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Pop Group,
The Alarm Clocks,
Hashim,
World's Most,
Fear,
Duran Duran,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Wally Richardson,
Iggy Pop,
The Birthday Party,
The Slackers,
Mission of Burma,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cybotron,
The Moleskins,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
This Heat,
MC5,
T.S.O.L.,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Circle Jerks,
Public Enemy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Pretty Things,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Velvet Underground,
Country Teasers,
Peter & Gordon,
Man Parrish,
Skaos,
Gerry Rafferty,
Barry Ungar,
Anakelly,
Absolute Body Control,
DNA,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The American Breed,
Pole,
The Real Kids,
Ultra Naté,
Smog,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Quando Quango,
Dual Sessions,
Urselle,
Todd Rundgren,
10cc,
Silicon Teens,
Sound Behaviour,
Kaleidoscope,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon.
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.