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 Jordan and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 theremin 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 Brand Nubian to the rock 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 Traffic Nightmare. All the underground hits.
All Marvin Gaye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
World's Most,
Anakelly,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Vainqueur,
Graham Central Station,
The Raincoats,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pharoah Sanders,
Maleditus Sound,
Peter and Kerry,
Johnny Clarke,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scion,
The Mummies,
The Doors,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bronski Beat,
L. Decosne,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
DJ Sneak,
Hot Snakes,
8 Eyed Spy,
Q65,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Vogues,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Move,
Angry Samoans,
Panda Bear,
Gichy Dan,
Funkadelic,
Cameo,
Gong,
Negative Approach,
Talk Talk,
Sun Ra,
The Fugs,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Guru Guru,
The Sonics,
Quando Quango,
The Divine Comedy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Echospace,
Black Sheep,
48th St. Collective,
Goldenarms,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ronnie Foster,
Fugazi,
Von Mondo,
The Skatalites,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Jawbox,
A Certain Ratio,
MDC,
The Alarm Clocks,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.