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 South Africa and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Country Teasers to the jazz 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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Count Five,
Sound Behaviour,
Inner City,
Bizarre Inc.,
Soul Sonic Force,
Magma,
Bauhaus,
Zero Boys,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Jesper Dahlback,
This Heat,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Bananas,
Barbara Tucker,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sixth Finger,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Monolake,
Loose Ends,
the Normal,
Circle Jerks,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
OOIOO,
Yaz,
Amon Düül,
Sarah Menescal,
Peter and Kerry,
Jawbox,
The Detroit Cobras,
Mantronix,
The Dirtbombs,
The Happenings,
Sex Pistols,
Country Teasers,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Hot Snakes,
The Monks,
Oblivians,
T. Rex,
Con Funk Shun,
Graham Central Station,
Tom Boy,
Eric Copeland,
Cal Tjader,
Organ,
Mad Mike,
The Gap Band,
Davy DMX,
Lou Reed,
Todd Rundgren,
Clear Light,
CMW,
Maurizio,
Kevin Saunderson,
EPMD,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bob Dylan,
Gastr Del Sol,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill.
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.