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 New Zealand and from Lille.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Donald Byrd to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Marshall Jefferson,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Susan Cadogan,
Mars,
Black Sheep,
Todd Rundgren,
Boredoms,
Magma,
Gil Scott Heron,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Moss Icon,
Fela Kuti,
Iggy Pop,
A Certain Ratio,
Tears for Fears,
Kaleidoscope,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The J.B.'s,
The Move,
Masters at Work,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
H. Thieme,
Fad Gadget,
Model 500,
Grandmaster Flash,
Porter Ricks,
The Tremeloes,
Pere Ubu,
The Red Krayola,
The Electric Prunes,
Ituana,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Piero Umiliani,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Blossom Toes,
New Order,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Matthew Halsall,
Quadrant,
Swell Maps,
Toni Rubio,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Average White Band,
Negative Approach,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Ten City,
The Last Poets,
Mad Mike,
Scientists,
Siglo XX,
Black Pus,
Jerry's Kids,
Glenn Branca,
Au Pairs,
Ohio Players,
Thee Headcoats,
ABC,
Livin' Joy,
In Retrospect,
Symarip,
Black Flag,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.