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 Libya and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 arpeggiator 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 Skriet to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Livin' Joy. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James White and The Blacks,
Scratch Acid,
Alphaville,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Gladiators,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Gories,
Jandek,
Drive Like Jehu,
Dennis Brown,
D'Angelo,
Archie Shepp,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kurtis Blow,
The Trojans,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pagans,
The Birthday Party,
World's Most,
Saccharine Trust,
Harry Pussy,
Ronnie Foster,
The Fugs,
Clear Light,
This Heat,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
T.S.O.L.,
Alison Limerick,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Nirvana,
Negative Approach,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Pere Ubu,
Scrapy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Chrome,
Subhumans,
The Blues Magoos,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bluetip,
Mark Hollis,
The Litter,
The Slits,
June Days,
Khruangbin,
AZ,
Das Ding,
Gerry Rafferty,
Section 25,
The Red Krayola,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Newcleus,
The Mojo Men,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Moleskins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Angry Samoans,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Fear,
Moss Icon,
Matthew Halsall,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.