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 Micronesia and from Salvador.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the grime 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terror Squad Feat. Camron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
Blossom Toes,
Charles Mingus,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lou Christie,
Amazonics,
The Move,
Bang On A Can,
David McCallum,
Wire,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Funky Four + One,
The Litter,
The Flesh Eaters,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ohio Players,
Whodini,
Mary Jane Girls,
Jacques Brel,
Marcia Griffiths,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Cymande,
Stockholm Monsters,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Absolute Body Control,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sister Nancy,
Au Pairs,
Pharoah Sanders,
Terrestrial Tones,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Big Daddy Kane,
Morten Harket,
Erykah Badu,
The New Christs,
The Zeros,
Terry Callier,
Gerry Rafferty,
Tommy Roe,
The Cure,
Neu!,
MC5,
The Tremeloes,
Piero Umiliani,
Andrew Hill,
The Music Machine,
Camberwell Now,
The Shadows of Knight,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ten City,
Neil Young,
David Axelrod,
David Bowie,
The Cosmic Jokers,
In Retrospect,
Gil Scott Heron,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jimmy McGriff,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Liliput,
Animal Collective,
Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust.
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.