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 Chile and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 DJ Sneak to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Black Pus. All the underground hits.
All The Shadows of Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hot Snakes 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Altered Images 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?
Eyeless In Gaza,
Kaleidoscope,
Bluetip,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Don Cherry,
Essential Logic,
Donny Hathaway,
The Grass Roots,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Leonard Cohen,
Ten City,
Sonic Youth,
DJ Style,
Pantytec,
Blancmange,
the Normal,
The Standells,
Intrusion,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Scientists,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
UT,
Wasted Youth,
The Fuzztones,
Lebanon Hanover,
Graham Central Station,
Boogie Down Productions,
the Sonics,
Deepchord,
Soul Sonic Force,
Flamin' Groovies,
Shoche,
The Cramps,
Jacques Brel,
Ultravox,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bauhaus,
Laurel Aitken,
Funky Four + One,
DJ Sneak,
kango's stein massive,
The Walker Brothers,
The Blackbyrds,
Soft Machine,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Wolf Eyes,
Infiniti,
Robert Görl,
KRS-One,
Matthew Bourne,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
DNA,
The Buckinghams,
Skaos,
Public Image Ltd.,
Dorothy Ashby,
Terrestrial Tones,
Little Man,
Connie Case,
Lightning Bolt,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.