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 Malawi and from Manchester.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Mexico City.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the guitar 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 Faust to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All Alice Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Make Up record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Hashim,
Sister Nancy,
Marvin Gaye,
Lalo Schifrin,
Derrick May,
cv313,
Technova,
The Martian,
Minny Pops,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Peter & Gordon,
Maleditus Sound,
Funkadelic,
The Searchers,
Mo-Dettes,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Circle Jerks,
John Holt,
Tropical Tobacco,
Saccharine Trust,
Jawbox,
Stetsasonic,
Juan Atkins,
Be Bop Deluxe,
John Coltrane,
The Pretty Things,
Barrington Levy,
Lalann,
China Crisis,
KRS-One,
Section 25,
Soulsonic Force,
a-ha,
Rosa Yemen,
OOIOO,
Intrusion,
Das Ding,
Eve St. Jones,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ten City,
Nik Kershaw,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ossler,
the Swans,
kango's stein massive,
Sight & Sound,
Derrick Morgan,
Leonard Cohen,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Last Poets,
The Gladiators,
Roxy Music,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brick,
The Fall,
Kayak,
Smog,
Camberwell Now,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.