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 Czech Republic and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Calgary.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Popol Vuh to the techno 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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Graham Central Station record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Hill,
Pet Shop Boys,
Dark Day,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Chris & Cosey,
The United States of America,
Ice-T,
The Wake,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Techniques,
Simply Red,
Danielle Patucci,
Matthew Halsall,
Warsaw,
Skarface,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Knickerbockers,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Stooges,
cv313,
T. Rex,
Guru Guru,
Unwound,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Wings,
Matthew Bourne,
Radiopuhelimet,
Y Pants,
Moebius,
Moby Grape,
Ten City,
The Misunderstood,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sandy B,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Stockholm Monsters,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Monks,
The Names,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Audionom,
Amon Düül,
Peter & Gordon,
The Blackbyrds,
H. Thieme,
Minny Pops,
Joe Finger,
The Evens,
Rakim,
Funkadelic,
Thee Headcoats,
Sam Rivers,
Bauhaus,
DJ Style,
Procol Harum,
the Swans,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rod Modell,
Infiniti,
Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat.
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.