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 Brazil 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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Severed Heads to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Anthony Braxton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
Royal Trux,
Delta 5,
Fear,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Robert Görl,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Danielle Patucci,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Quando Quango,
Nils Olav,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bob Dylan,
Crash Course in Science,
Agent Orange,
David McCallum,
The Mojo Men,
Niagra,
Charles Mingus,
James White and The Blacks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Move,
Morten Harket,
Sarah Menescal,
The Wake,
Minor Threat,
Lou Christie,
Erasure,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Soft Cell,
The Monochrome Set,
New Age Steppers,
Bad Manners,
Jeff Mills,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Underground Resistance,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Shadows of Knight,
Fela Kuti,
The Skatalites,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Warren Ellis,
X-Ray Spex,
Eddi Front,
Idris Muhammad,
Lebanon Hanover,
Thompson Twins,
Jerry's Kids,
Darondo,
Carl Craig,
Eli Mardock,
Ohio Players,
Urselle,
New Order,
Dennis Brown,
Jimmy McGriff,
Peter and Kerry,
Newcleus,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Selecter,
Barrington Levy,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.