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 Congo and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 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 Warsaw to the crunk 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 The Gories. All the underground hits.
All Robert Görl tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Model 500 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alison Limerick,
Delta 5,
Kool Moe Dee,
cv313,
Jerry's Kids,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
AZ,
David Bowie,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sixth Finger,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gastr Del Sol,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Golliwogs,
Roxy Music,
Roger Hodgson,
Curtis Mayfield,
Angry Samoans,
The New Christs,
Grandmaster Flash,
World's Most,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
ABBA,
The Standells,
B.T. Express,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Connie Case,
Charles Mingus,
The Black Dice,
The Index,
Warren Ellis,
The Smiths,
Soft Machine,
Cybotron,
Faraquet,
Mission of Burma,
Marine Girls,
Gichy Dan,
Bluetip,
Stereo Dub,
Bobby Womack,
R.M.O.,
Thee Headcoats,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ituana,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Joe Finger,
Black Flag,
Yusef Lateef,
Talk Talk,
Marcia Griffiths,
Funky Four + One,
MC5,
T. Rex,
Stetsasonic,
PIL,
The Music Machine,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.