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 Vietnam and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bobby Hutcherson to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All The Dead C tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faraquet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Donny Hathaway,
The Star Department,
John Cale,
Sarah Menescal,
The Index,
Funky Four + One,
The Slackers,
Underground Resistance,
Royal Trux,
The Sound,
The Stooges,
Matthew Bourne,
The Seeds,
Von Mondo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Scott Walker,
Bad Manners,
Lou Reed,
CMW,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Beau Brummels,
Porter Ricks,
Girls At Our Best!,
Blossom Toes,
China Crisis,
The Vogues,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Wolf Eyes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lungfish,
Anthony Braxton,
Con Funk Shun,
Crash Course in Science,
kango's stein massive,
Parry Music,
Liliput,
Kurtis Blow,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Deepchord,
Babytalk,
the Sonics,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pantytec,
The Black Dice,
Echospace,
In Retrospect,
Absolute Body Control,
David McCallum,
Metal Thangz,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Jeru the Damaja,
Byron Stingily,
June Days,
the Normal,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Mad Mike,
Gang Starr,
Nas,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.