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 Madagascar and from Stockholm.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Lightning Bolt to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All Hoover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Osbourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Eric Dolphy,
This Heat,
Joe Finger,
Von Mondo,
Black Pus,
Desert Stars,
Skaos,
Vainqueur,
Hardrive,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Massinfluence,
PIL,
B.T. Express,
Arthur Verocai,
Quadrant,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Wasted Youth,
Crispian St. Peters,
Soft Machine,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Ultra Naté,
Metal Thangz,
The Vogues,
L. Decosne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Sherman,
Dennis Brown,
Ice-T,
Saccharine Trust,
Steve Hackett,
Guru Guru,
Scientists,
Interpol,
Max Romeo,
The Gun Club,
Sparks,
kango's stein massive,
David Axelrod,
Marine Girls,
Franke,
Yazoo,
Avey Tare,
Scion,
Soul II Soul,
Eden Ahbez,
The Happenings,
New Order,
John Foxx,
Heaven 17,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mr. Review,
Mission of Burma,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Symarip,
Camouflage,
Kas Product,
Aaron Thompson,
Siglo XX,
The Tremeloes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.