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 Antigua and from London.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bauhaus to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Charles Mingus. All the underground hits.
All Hoover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharoah Sanders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythm & Sound,
The Fuzztones,
June Days,
Outsiders,
The Sound,
Joy Division,
ABBA,
Wire,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Banda Bassotti,
Lalo Schifrin,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Techniques,
Fluxion,
Tropical Tobacco,
Pantaleimon,
Inner City,
John Lydon,
The Barracudas,
Carl Craig,
Jeff Lynne,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rod Modell,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Slackers,
Eli Mardock,
The Monochrome Set,
Sex Pistols,
Khruangbin,
The Electric Prunes,
Guru Guru,
Laurel Aitken,
Blancmange,
Spoonie Gee,
Royal Trux,
The Martian,
The Names,
Jeru the Damaja,
Eric B and Rakim,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Tremeloes,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Black Dice,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Swans,
Letta Mbulu,
Groovy Waters,
Connie Case,
Rapeman,
Gabor Szabo,
The Red Krayola,
DNA,
Tears for Fears,
CMW,
Kaleidoscope,
Sound Behaviour,
Man Eating Sloth,
Chris & Cosey,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.