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 France and from Bremen.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the snare 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the dance 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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moleskins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Porter Ricks,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ronnie Foster,
Clear Light,
CMW,
The Zeros,
Interpol,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Susan Cadogan,
Country Teasers,
Kevin Saunderson,
Neu!,
Scientists,
Aural Exciters,
The Fire Engines,
PIL,
Pet Shop Boys,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Walker Brothers,
Marcia Griffiths,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joy Division,
Vainqueur,
Wire,
E-Dancer,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Nik Kershaw,
Panda Bear,
Rapeman,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Pierre Henry,
The Kinks,
Pantaleimon,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Glenn Branca,
Technova,
Inner City,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pharoah Sanders,
Warren Ellis,
The Moody Blues,
Harry Pussy,
the Swans,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Hardrive,
Guru Guru,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Anthony Braxton,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Radiopuhelimet,
the Normal,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Remains,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Five Americans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sixth Finger,
The Electric Prunes,
Laurel Aitken,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.