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 Cambodia and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare 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 Ludus to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Man Eating Sloth. All the underground hits.
All Major Organ And The Adding Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sixth Finger 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Moebius,
Fluxion,
The Red Krayola,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Animal Collective,
Matthew Bourne,
The Wake,
Flipper,
The Knickerbockers,
Eden Ahbez,
Zapp,
Simply Red,
The Stooges,
Schoolly D,
The Walker Brothers,
Warren Ellis,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Robert Görl,
Scratch Acid,
The Monochrome Set,
Public Enemy,
James White and The Blacks,
Public Image Ltd.,
Joe Smooth,
The Selecter,
Angry Samoans,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Count Five,
The Black Dice,
8 Eyed Spy,
Grey Daturas,
Byron Stingily,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bootsy Collins,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Fortunes,
Tomorrow,
E-Dancer,
Althea and Donna,
Bluetip,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Davy DMX,
the Normal,
The J.B.'s,
Gang Gang Dance,
Toni Rubio,
David McCallum,
Chris & Cosey,
Liliput,
Adolescents,
In Retrospect,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Misunderstood,
Whodini,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.