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 Mauritius and from Lille.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Lou Reed & Metallica to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Fania All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All Swell Maps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Excepter,
Model 500,
Cecil Taylor,
Hoover,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kurtis Blow,
Scott Walker,
The Divine Comedy,
Jacob Miller,
Todd Terry,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Donny Hathaway,
MDC,
Danielle Patucci,
Pulsallama,
Kool Moe Dee,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Eric B and Rakim,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Beau Brummels,
K-Klass,
Little Man,
Girls At Our Best!,
the Association,
Lower 48,
the Fania All-Stars,
ABC,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camberwell Now,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Mandrill,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Das Ding,
The Kinks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Deepchord,
Sonny Sharrock,
Parry Music,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Television Personalities,
Johnny Osbourne,
Goldenarms,
Banda Bassotti,
The Five Americans,
John Cale,
Dual Sessions,
the Normal,
The Pop Group,
The Cowsills,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
X-Ray Spex,
Josef K,
Ronnie Foster,
The Saints,
Lou Reed,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Prince Buster,
Cymande,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.