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 Bulgaria and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 sitar 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 Kurtis Blow to the funk 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 The Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sixth Finger,
Television Personalities,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Magma,
Mars,
The Associates,
Flipper,
UT,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Half Japanese,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jesper Dahlback,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gang Gang Dance,
Moss Icon,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Intrusion,
Scientists,
Gang Starr,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Thee Headcoats,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Max Romeo,
Minor Threat,
China Crisis,
Scion,
Arcadia,
Eric Dolphy,
The Electric Prunes,
Joy Division,
Leonard Cohen,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Wasted Youth,
Ornette Coleman,
Heaven 17,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kerri Chandler,
The Gun Club,
The Black Dice,
The American Breed,
Drexciya,
Avey Tare,
Kerrie Biddell,
Steve Hackett,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Main Source,
Archie Shepp,
X-101,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Leaves,
Subhumans,
June Days,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kurtis Blow,
Pylon,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Connie Case,
Schoolly D,
Bizarre Inc.,
Mary Jane Girls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.