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 Kosovo and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Unwound to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Gian Franco Pienzio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rosa Yemen,
Bronski Beat,
This Heat,
Gang Green,
Suicide,
Lalann,
Q65,
The Fall,
Joe Finger,
Susan Cadogan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
F. McDonald,
Pulsallama,
Kas Product,
T. Rex,
Urselle,
Crispian St. Peters,
Visage,
Tears for Fears,
DJ Sneak,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Residents,
Graham Central Station,
The Tremeloes,
Alton Ellis,
Aaron Thompson,
Fluxion,
Joy Division,
T.S.O.L.,
The Fuzztones,
The Dead C,
Swans,
Altered Images,
Ossler,
Rakim,
Flash Fearless,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
E-Dancer,
Judy Mowatt,
Das Ding,
Ken Boothe,
Depeche Mode,
Sarah Menescal,
The Barracudas,
Supertramp,
Clear Light,
Ronnie Foster,
Derrick May,
Hashim,
The Count Five,
Outsiders,
The Names,
The Searchers,
Main Source,
Connie Case,
Moby Grape,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Max Romeo,
The Happenings, The Happenings, The Happenings, The Happenings.
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.