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 Taiwan and from Portland.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 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 Wire to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Saccharine Trust. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ken Boothe,
The Mummies,
Grey Daturas,
Yellowson,
Japan,
Panda Bear,
LL Cool J,
The Knickerbockers,
Iggy Pop,
Skriet,
Bobby Byrd,
Tommy Roe,
Ten City,
Mantronix,
Flash Fearless,
Brick,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Freddie Wadling,
Underground Resistance,
Peter & Gordon,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Beau Brummels,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Modern Lovers,
Outsiders,
T.S.O.L.,
Wire,
Sarah Menescal,
The Residents,
Thee Headcoats,
The Buckinghams,
Gang Starr,
Gong,
Amazonics,
Television Personalities,
Nick Fraelich,
The Motions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Q and Not U,
Public Enemy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Massinfluence,
Joe Smooth,
kango's stein massive,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Eddi Front,
Spoonie Gee,
Ponytail,
Newcleus,
Nik Kershaw,
Kool Moe Dee,
Peter and Kerry,
A Certain Ratio,
FM Einheit,
Audionom,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Roxy Music,
Parry Music,
the Germs,
Scan 7,
The Sound,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Surgeon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.