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 Senegal and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Captain Beefheart 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 The Vogues to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ajijia Myrayebe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erykah Badu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lightning Bolt,
Fela Kuti,
The Red Krayola,
Barrington Levy,
Deepchord,
Underground Resistance,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sam Rivers,
Audionom,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Wolf Eyes,
Pussy Galore,
The New Christs,
Black Pus,
the Fania All-Stars,
Erasure,
The Angels of Light,
Thee Headcoats,
Joyce Sims,
World's Most,
Main Source,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Absolute Body Control,
Bobby Sherman,
Unrelated Segments,
Cluster,
Glenn Branca,
Pierre Henry,
Mo-Dettes,
Howard Jones,
Cymande,
Parry Music,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Gladiators,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Detroit Cobras,
Man Eating Sloth,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Model 500,
Robert Görl,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Carl Craig,
This Heat,
Tubeway Army,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
K-Klass,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Deadbeat,
Soul Sonic Force,
Y Pants,
Cybotron,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Reuben Wilson,
Dual Sessions,
The Barracudas,
Albert Ayler,
The Remains, The Remains, The Remains, The Remains.
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.