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 Andorra and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the güiro 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 Basic Channel to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Ronnie Foster. All the underground hits.
All the Germs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order 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?
Porter Ricks,
The Divine Comedy,
Howard Jones,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Roy Ayers,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Modern Lovers,
Newcleus,
Joyce Sims,
Bobby Womack,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Janne Schatter,
Marine Girls,
Icehouse,
Blossom Toes,
Camberwell Now,
Stiv Bators,
The Count Five,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bizarre Inc.,
Piero Umiliani,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pagans,
Motorama,
Junior Murvin,
The Invisible,
Matthew Bourne,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Fire Engines,
The Busters,
DJ Style,
Pantaleimon,
These Immortal Souls,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lungfish,
Dave Gahan,
Cal Tjader,
Lee Hazlewood,
Gregory Isaacs,
Graham Central Station,
Suicide,
JFA,
Swans,
Arthur Verocai,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Birthday Party,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Barbara Tucker,
Albert Ayler,
Stereo Dub,
Quadrant,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Underground Resistance,
Iggy Pop,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Fugs,
Mr. Review,
Essential Logic,
Tropical Tobacco,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Men They Couldn't Hang.
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.