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 Liberia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 KRS-One to the grunge 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 Popol Vuh. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Massinfluence,
Warren Ellis,
The Doors,
Yazoo,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Minnie Riperton,
The Wake,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Moleskins,
Zapp,
The Toasters,
Spandau Ballet,
Public Image Ltd.,
Scientists,
the Sonics,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pagans,
Metal Thangz,
Traffic Nightmare,
Harmonia,
Main Source,
The Skatalites,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Dave Clark Five,
Circle Jerks,
Liliput,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Cybotron,
David McCallum,
Roger Hodgson,
Barrington Levy,
Jawbox,
The Divine Comedy,
Danielle Patucci,
Masters at Work,
Mo-Dettes,
The Litter,
Blossom Toes,
The Monochrome Set,
Cameo,
Cymande,
Fifty Foot Hose,
JFA,
Siglo XX,
The Invisible,
Pantytec,
Delta 5,
The Mummies,
Grey Daturas,
Pharoah Sanders,
Flash Fearless,
Eddi Front,
Brass Construction,
the Germs,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Eric B and Rakim,
Black Pus,
Los Fastidios,
Letta Mbulu,
Junior Murvin,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.