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 Bangladesh and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Houston.
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 mellotron 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 The Tremeloes 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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Jeru the Damaja tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Quantec,
Rotary Connection,
Section 25,
KRS-One,
The Star Department,
Pantytec,
Soul II Soul,
Bobby Womack,
The Names,
Swans,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Visage,
The Associates,
Heaven 17,
Tomorrow,
The Zeros,
UT,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Susan Cadogan,
Rod Modell,
Ludus,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Eden Ahbez,
Sandy B,
Curtis Mayfield,
Nas,
Scratch Acid,
Camouflage,
Eric B and Rakim,
Qualms,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Joe Smooth,
The Tremeloes,
Lungfish,
Yellowson,
Alison Limerick,
Siglo XX,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Cowsills,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Excepter,
Underground Resistance,
These Immortal Souls,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Anthony Braxton,
The Real Kids,
Tubeway Army,
DJ Sneak,
Desert Stars,
The Music Machine,
The Monks,
Aaron Thompson,
The Happenings,
The Fugs,
Maurizio,
Flash Fearless,
Simply Red,
Aswad,
Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill.
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.