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 Mongolia and from Accra.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Zero Boys to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Dark Day. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric B and Rakim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Image Ltd. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultimate Spinach,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Yellowson,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Moebius,
Lindisfarne,
Moby Grape,
Adolescents,
Zapp,
Janne Schatter,
The Names,
The Monks,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ultra Naté,
David Axelrod,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Davy DMX,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
10cc,
Blake Baxter,
Colin Newman,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Prince Buster,
Average White Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Joyce Sims,
Dave Gahan,
Kerri Chandler,
OOIOO,
Sam Rivers,
Kevin Saunderson,
X-102,
Brothers Johnson,
Rekid,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Dorothy Ashby,
Rapeman,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Robert Görl,
ABBA,
Lalann,
Matthew Halsall,
Boogie Down Productions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Walker Brothers,
The Tremeloes,
Visage,
The Modern Lovers,
David Bowie,
Pole,
Eric Dolphy,
AZ,
Banda Bassotti,
Whodini,
The Monochrome Set,
Skaos,
Nik Kershaw,
Dual Sessions,
Jimmy McGriff,
Metal Thangz,
The Gap Band,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance.
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.