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 Ghana and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 arpeggiator 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Kurtis Blow. All the underground hits.
All Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Parrish 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry Gold Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mummies,
Bobbi Humphrey,
DNA,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jeff Mills,
Ludus,
Minny Pops,
Talk Talk,
Altered Images,
The Evens,
Icehouse,
Pulsallama,
Von Mondo,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Robert Wyatt,
Pantytec,
Terry Callier,
The Doobie Brothers,
Avey Tare,
Angry Samoans,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Move,
The Wake,
Nils Olav,
Magazine,
X-102,
a-ha,
The Mojo Men,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Trojans,
Ten City,
Babytalk,
The Alarm Clocks,
Cybotron,
Average White Band,
Derrick May,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Knickerbockers,
Negative Approach,
Camberwell Now,
Colin Newman,
Blancmange,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sparks,
The Vogues,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sugar Minott,
Gong,
DJ Sneak,
Nation of Ulysses,
Freddie Wadling,
Toni Rubio,
Ohio Players,
Joensuu 1685,
Gang Starr,
The Velvet Underground,
Kenny Larkin,
Fat Boys,
Godley & Creme,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.