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 Qatar and from Glasgow.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Q65 to the dance 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 Bootsy Collins. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Moon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Excepter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Unrelated Segments,
The Fall,
David Bowie,
Todd Rundgren,
Lalann,
Eric Dolphy,
Camberwell Now,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Marcia Griffiths,
Panda Bear,
Marine Girls,
La Düsseldorf,
Warsaw,
Monolake,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Second Layer,
Kas Product,
kango's stein massive,
Organ,
Juan Atkins,
Graham Central Station,
Donny Hathaway,
Theoretical Girls,
The Pop Group,
Glenn Branca,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Magma,
The Golliwogs,
The Cowsills,
Albert Ayler,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Dave Clark Five,
Hashim,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Yellowson,
48th St. Collective,
Rakim,
John Coltrane,
Minutemen,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Severed Heads,
R.M.O.,
Bobby Womack,
Brand Nubian,
Nils Olav,
Blancmange,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Roy Ayers,
Bill Near,
Surgeon,
Junior Murvin,
The Slits,
Skaos,
Das Ding,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Max Romeo,
Whodini,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
June Days,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.