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 Romania and from Delhi.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Robert Hood to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Sherman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eddi Front record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Outsiders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MDC,
The Litter,
China Crisis,
Schoolly D,
Marshall Jefferson,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Marmalade,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
KRS-One,
Fela Kuti,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ossler,
Janne Schatter,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Gun Club,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bad Manners,
Gichy Dan,
Carl Craig,
Quadrant,
the Swans,
Fifty Foot Hose,
John Coltrane,
Malaria!,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Scratch Acid,
The Fugs,
Suburban Knight,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Von Mondo,
Bill Wells,
The Vogues,
Basic Channel,
Stiv Bators,
Swans,
Make Up,
Bobby Womack,
T. Rex,
Wasted Youth,
Prince Buster,
Zapp,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Royal Trux,
Magazine,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Joyce Sims,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Big Daddy Kane,
L. Decosne,
Maurizio,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lightning Bolt,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Robert Hood,
Jeru the Damaja,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bootsy Collins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Cowsills,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.