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 Oman and from Edmonton.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Glenn Branca to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Blancmange. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
The Tremeloes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Slackers,
Jesper Dahlback,
Jawbox,
Infiniti,
The Raincoats,
OOIOO,
Das Ding,
Darondo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
In Retrospect,
Deepchord,
Wally Richardson,
the Germs,
Drexciya,
Japan,
Hasil Adkins,
Hot Snakes,
Amon Düül II,
The Mojo Men,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ultravox,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Erasure,
Roy Ayers,
Colin Newman,
Symarip,
Brass Construction,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gabor Szabo,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ituana,
The Offenders,
Bobby Byrd,
James White and The Blacks,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Massinfluence,
The Victims,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Pierre Henry,
Soft Machine,
Soul II Soul,
The Blackbyrds,
Pet Shop Boys,
Robert Wyatt,
Chrome,
EPMD,
The Motions,
Silicon Teens,
Ultimate Spinach,
Essential Logic,
The New Christs,
Nirvana,
X-Ray Spex,
Connie Case,
Crispy Ambulance,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.