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 Oman and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Mumbai.
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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Dual Sessions to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sandy B record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pop Group,
Goldenarms,
The Gun Club,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Buzzcocks,
Brand Nubian,
Visage,
Derrick May,
Black Flag,
Johnny Clarke,
Marine Girls,
Dead Boys,
Franke,
Camouflage,
Kenny Larkin,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sound Behaviour,
Scion,
The Litter,
Kerri Chandler,
Carl Craig,
Vainqueur,
In Retrospect,
Trumans Water,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Brass Construction,
Pantytec,
Minnie Riperton,
World's Most,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Associates,
Nik Kershaw,
Hoover,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Human League,
The Names,
Silicon Teens,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Siglo XX,
Curtis Mayfield,
Guru Guru,
Dorothy Ashby,
Byron Stingily,
Nirvana,
Davy DMX,
Boredoms,
Marvin Gaye,
The Neon Judgement,
Niagra,
Mandrill,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Icehouse,
The Move,
John Foxx,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Scan 7,
John Coltrane,
The Searchers,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
K-Klass,
Derrick Morgan,
Ice-T,
The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice.
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.