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 Chad and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Calgary.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ 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 Prince Buster to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Smoke. All the underground hits.
All Iggy Pop tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lyres,
Man Parrish,
Marcia Griffiths,
Mad Mike,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ossler,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Echospace,
The Cramps,
Minutemen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Vogues,
Desert Stars,
Banda Bassotti,
Severed Heads,
Peter & Gordon,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The United States of America,
Quadrant,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bauhaus,
The Shadows of Knight,
Grey Daturas,
Mandrill,
Underground Resistance,
Los Fastidios,
Hashim,
Minny Pops,
China Crisis,
Aswad,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Radiohead,
The Martian,
Amon Düül,
Pole,
Metal Thangz,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Con Funk Shun,
Curtis Mayfield,
Fat Boys,
The Leaves,
Eric Copeland,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Barrington Levy,
Zero Boys,
June of 44,
Suicide,
Oblivians,
Yaz,
Kayak,
The Human League,
Erasure,
Surgeon,
Half Japanese,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.