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 Portugal and from Columbus.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Delon & Dalcan to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Germs. All the underground hits.
All D'Angelo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
Blossom Toes,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Shoche,
Boz Scaggs,
Lungfish,
Moby Grape,
Loose Ends,
Soulsonic Force,
Joensuu 1685,
The Black Dice,
The Modern Lovers,
Crispy Ambulance,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Last Poets,
Adolescents,
Thee Headcoats,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Monks,
kango's stein massive,
The Slackers,
Niagra,
the Germs,
The Human League,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Eurythmics,
Goldenarms,
These Immortal Souls,
The Divine Comedy,
Average White Band,
Junior Murvin,
K-Klass,
Iggy Pop,
Todd Terry,
Aswad,
World's Most,
Stetsasonic,
Alice Coltrane,
Juan Atkins,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Hoover,
Crime,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marc Almond,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Searchers,
The Gories,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ludus,
ABBA,
Moss Icon,
T.S.O.L.,
8 Eyed Spy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Flash Fearless,
Vainqueur,
The Mummies,
David McCallum,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.