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 Albania and from Tokyo.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Harmonia to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Moleskins. All the underground hits.
All Ash Ra Tempel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a T.S.O.L. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Skarface,
Minnie Riperton,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Underground Resistance,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pole,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ice-T,
Davy DMX,
Derrick May,
Bizarre Inc.,
a-ha,
The Moleskins,
Intrusion,
China Crisis,
Sonny Sharrock,
U.S. Maple,
Harmonia,
Juan Atkins,
Niagra,
The Mummies,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Cramps,
Josef K,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Alison Limerick,
The Real Kids,
Easy Going,
Barrington Levy,
Moebius,
The Alarm Clocks,
Colin Newman,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kaleidoscope,
The Wake,
Kevin Saunderson,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Searchers,
Delta 5,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Maleditus Sound,
The Sonics,
The American Breed,
Archie Shepp,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Byron Stingily,
Aural Exciters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Talk Talk,
Youth Brigade,
Amon Düül,
Nas,
The Modern Lovers,
Marvin Gaye,
KRS-One,
Gabor Szabo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.