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 Honduras and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Chrome to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crooked Eye record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skaos,
Roger Hodgson,
Kenny Larkin,
The Fire Engines,
In Retrospect,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Icehouse,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Zero Boys,
June Days,
Soul II Soul,
Accadde A,
Agent Orange,
Newcleus,
The Music Machine,
Royal Trux,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Dark Day,
KRS-One,
Robert Hood,
Country Teasers,
The United States of America,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Walker Brothers,
Fela Kuti,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Don Cherry,
Idris Muhammad,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Saccharine Trust,
Von Mondo,
Suicide,
Oneida,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Detroit Cobras,
Make Up,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
H. Thieme,
Erasure,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Warsaw,
The Leaves,
Black Pus,
X-101,
Kerrie Biddell,
Duran Duran,
Sun City Girls,
Toni Rubio,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Barracudas,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Guru Guru,
Q65,
Alison Limerick,
The J.B.'s,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Deakin,
the Normal,
Ten City,
The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground.
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.