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 Sweden and from Mexico City.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Flamin' Groovies to the techno 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 The Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Enemy 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boredoms,
Altered Images,
the Normal,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Godley & Creme,
Soul Sonic Force,
Thompson Twins,
Dennis Brown,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sound Behaviour,
Franke,
Brick,
Flamin' Groovies,
Hashim,
Sunsets and Hearts,
E-Dancer,
John Lydon,
Ludus,
Lightning Bolt,
Neu!,
Bill Wells,
Lucky Dragons,
Stetsasonic,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Doors,
Nas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Public Enemy,
Quantec,
Jeff Mills,
Black Moon,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
48th St. Collective,
Terrestrial Tones,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bush Tetras,
Blancmange,
Silicon Teens,
June Days,
Q and Not U,
Mark Hollis,
The Vogues,
In Retrospect,
Barbara Tucker,
Funkadelic,
Subhumans,
Massinfluence,
Derrick May,
Isaac Hayes,
Yazoo,
Jeru the Damaja,
Max Romeo,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Smog,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Danielle Patucci,
The Monochrome Set,
The Dave Clark Five,
Suburban Knight,
Peter and Kerry,
Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat.
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.