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 Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Tehran and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Cameo to the rock 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 Los Fastidios. All the underground hits.
All John Holt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mojo Men 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gian Franco Pienzio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Prince Buster,
Theoretical Girls,
Quadrant,
Sound Behaviour,
Lou Reed,
Basic Channel,
Motorama,
Kevin Saunderson,
La Düsseldorf,
Goldenarms,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Stereo Dub,
Pantaleimon,
Q and Not U,
Boogie Down Productions,
Iggy Pop,
The Young Rascals,
Japan,
Erykah Badu,
Chris & Cosey,
Peter and Kerry,
MDC,
Young Marble Giants,
The Vogues,
Archie Shepp,
Cheater Slicks,
Rites of Spring,
Bad Manners,
Carl Craig,
Nico,
Whodini,
Minutemen,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sunsets and Hearts,
UT,
It's A Beautiful Day,
48th St. Collective,
Easy Going,
Toni Rubio,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Supertramp,
The Fortunes,
Mission of Burma,
Faraquet,
The Mojo Men,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Tubeway Army,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kayak,
Schoolly D,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bronski Beat,
Franke,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Mo-Dettes,
Minnie Riperton,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jacques Brel,
James White and The Blacks,
The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed.
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.