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 Angola and from Sao Paulo.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Tim Buckley to the techno 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 The Stooges. All the underground hits.
All Marcia Griffiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
Liliput,
Audionom,
Circle Jerks,
Dennis Brown,
Kenny Larkin,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sight & Sound,
June Days,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scan 7,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ice-T,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kerri Chandler,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rapeman,
Dark Day,
Deepchord,
Arab on Radar,
The Knickerbockers,
Stiv Bators,
Curtis Mayfield,
Essential Logic,
Smog,
Faraquet,
Gil Scott Heron,
Oneida,
Wings,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Eurythmics,
The Monochrome Set,
Angry Samoans,
Marine Girls,
Scion,
Bronski Beat,
Ultra Naté,
the Germs,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sam Rivers,
Kevin Saunderson,
Blancmange,
Hashim,
Hot Snakes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Godley & Creme,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Spandau Ballet,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Wire,
Althea and Donna,
The J.B.'s,
Magma,
Johnny Clarke,
Colin Newman,
James Chance & The Contortions,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Rakim,
Alphaville,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.