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 Singapore and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Tres Demented 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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
EPMD,
L. Decosne,
Ken Boothe,
Quando Quango,
Joyce Sims,
Jeff Mills,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Roy Ayers,
Terry Callier,
Audionom,
Dennis Brown,
Pere Ubu,
Scion,
Suicide,
the Bar-Kays,
Agent Orange,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Matthew Halsall,
Gang of Four,
Los Fastidios,
Vainqueur,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
10cc,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Nils Olav,
Warren Ellis,
DJ Sneak,
Fad Gadget,
Ultravox,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Massinfluence,
The Monochrome Set,
Liliput,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Godley & Creme,
Loose Ends,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Scientists,
CMW,
Pantaleimon,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rosa Yemen,
The Leaves,
Von Mondo,
The Barracudas,
The Cure,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Unrelated Segments,
FM Einheit,
Black Bananas,
the Association,
Brick,
Bauhaus,
Jesper Dahlback,
Josef K,
The Dead C,
Fluxion,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.