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 Bhutan and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 mellotron 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 London Community Gospel Choir to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All Royal Trux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wally Richardson,
Boz Scaggs,
E-Dancer,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eurythmics,
Bootsy Collins,
Amon Düül,
Guru Guru,
The Star Department,
The Fortunes,
Ken Boothe,
Adolescents,
Sarah Menescal,
The Offenders,
Neu!,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Idris Muhammad,
Wasted Youth,
the Germs,
The Leaves,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Saccharine Trust,
the Normal,
Erasure,
Pulsallama,
Index,
Ten City,
Carl Craig,
Man Eating Sloth,
Andrew Hill,
UT,
Derrick Morgan,
Sister Nancy,
Rekid,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Barbara Tucker,
Fear,
Peter and Kerry,
The Sonics,
Soul II Soul,
Malaria!,
Yellowson,
Bluetip,
LL Cool J,
The Toasters,
Amazonics,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Moody Blues,
Grey Daturas,
Smog,
Nas,
Talk Talk,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gichy Dan,
The J.B.'s,
The Divine Comedy,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Suburban Knight,
Excepter,
Arcadia,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.