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 Turkey and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Can to the funk 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 H. Thieme. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Lee Hazlewood,
Masters at Work,
The Flesh Eaters,
Yellowson,
Drexciya,
Niagra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gichy Dan,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Warsaw,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Basic Channel,
Fugazi,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Harmonia,
Glenn Branca,
The Angels of Light,
Al Stewart,
MC5,
Dave Gahan,
Warren Ellis,
X-101,
Althea and Donna,
Marine Girls,
Duran Duran,
DNA,
Michelle Simonal,
Black Pus,
Don Cherry,
Cybotron,
The Selecter,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jacques Brel,
Spoonie Gee,
The Moleskins,
X-Ray Spex,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Dual Sessions,
Amon Düül,
The Vogues,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Harpers Bizarre,
Shoche,
Cameo,
the Sonics,
Newcleus,
The Slits,
Make Up,
Index,
Alison Limerick,
Quantec,
Quadrant,
Slick Rick,
Toni Rubio,
Supertramp,
The Velvet Underground,
Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr.
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.