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 the UAE and from Salvador.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro 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 FM Einheit to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Procol Harum. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy Collins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
Schoolly D,
The Fuzztones,
The Young Rascals,
David Bowie,
Bootsy Collins,
The Gladiators,
Erasure,
Negative Approach,
the Slits,
the Bar-Kays,
Faust,
Pierre Henry,
Blake Baxter,
The American Breed,
Terrestrial Tones,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Subhumans,
Todd Terry,
Jerry's Kids,
Von Mondo,
Max Romeo,
The Names,
Quadrant,
Ohio Players,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Seeds,
ABC,
Soul Sonic Force,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sonic Youth,
Joe Smooth,
Simply Red,
David Axelrod,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Althea and Donna,
Sällskapet,
Pylon,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Q65,
Hardrive,
Bob Dylan,
Jacques Brel,
Bronski Beat,
Pole,
Boogie Down Productions,
Television Personalities,
The Raincoats,
Pussy Galore,
Robert Wyatt,
Accadde A,
Kerrie Biddell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jandek,
Zapp,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Blackbyrds,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.