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 St Lucia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Tom Boy to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Tres Demented tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lindisfarne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ice-T record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
Gabor Szabo,
Jeff Mills,
Cluster,
The Litter,
The United States of America,
Radiohead,
Cymande,
Pole,
Delta 5,
PIL,
Chrome,
The Fuzztones,
Groovy Waters,
Peter and Kerry,
John Lydon,
The Durutti Column,
The Golliwogs,
Marc Almond,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Offenders,
Zapp,
Fad Gadget,
The Dirtbombs,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Lightning Bolt,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ronan,
Tommy Roe,
Black Moon,
Newcleus,
Mo-Dettes,
David Axelrod,
Brothers Johnson,
T. Rex,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Hardrive,
The Star Department,
Make Up,
Sixth Finger,
the Slits,
Minor Threat,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Smiths,
The Pop Group,
The Move,
Black Sheep,
Basic Channel,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roy Ayers,
Average White Band,
Bang On A Can,
The Saints,
UT,
Don Cherry,
Sight & Sound,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.