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 Samoa and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Jakarta.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Stetsasonic to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Mr. Review. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Qualms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Carl Craig,
Loose Ends,
Soulsonic Force,
Eddi Front,
Sixth Finger,
Aural Exciters,
Scion,
The Mojo Men,
Godley & Creme,
Eve St. Jones,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Monochrome Set,
Stiv Bators,
The Gun Club,
Letta Mbulu,
The New Christs,
Matthew Halsall,
KRS-One,
Lebanon Hanover,
Patti Smith,
Sonic Youth,
China Crisis,
Joe Smooth,
Inner City,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Severed Heads,
Dead Boys,
AZ,
Barbara Tucker,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Toni Rubio,
Peter & Gordon,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Roger Hodgson,
Kerrie Biddell,
Buzzcocks,
Avey Tare,
Joe Finger,
Harmonia,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Quantec,
Danielle Patucci,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Animal Collective,
Barry Ungar,
Bush Tetras,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Moss Icon,
Traffic Nightmare,
the Slits,
Peter and Kerry,
Alice Coltrane,
Sällskapet,
Flamin' Groovies,
Fatback Band,
Kerri Chandler,
Funky Four + One,
Jacob Miller,
Delta 5,
Visage,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.