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 Israel and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 Manila and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 oboe 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 Toni Rubio to the funk 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 Monks. All the underground hits.
All Max Romeo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reuben Wilson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Electric Prunes,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bush Tetras,
Icehouse,
Maleditus Sound,
EPMD,
Susan Cadogan,
Bluetip,
Ultravox,
Public Image Ltd.,
John Coltrane,
Barrington Levy,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Slackers,
cv313,
Jeru the Damaja,
Steve Hackett,
Hashim,
Nick Fraelich,
Scion,
Radiohead,
Magma,
Sam Rivers,
The New Christs,
Grauzone,
Skriet,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Zeros,
Tim Buckley,
Terrestrial Tones,
MC5,
Moebius,
Shuggie Otis,
Country Teasers,
The Sound,
Iggy Pop,
The Pop Group,
Juan Atkins,
Unwound,
The Names,
Nation of Ulysses,
Aural Exciters,
Glambeats Corp.,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Scott Walker,
The Kinks,
Morten Harket,
Sound Behaviour,
X-101,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Camouflage,
Boredoms,
Alton Ellis,
Underground Resistance,
Eli Mardock,
Lucky Dragons,
Hasil Adkins,
The Fire Engines,
DJ Style,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles.
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.