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 Indonesia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Delhi.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ralphi Rosario to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 London Community Gospel Choir. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scrapy,
B.T. Express,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rod Modell,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sonic Youth,
Faraquet,
The Fortunes,
Joensuu 1685,
Minny Pops,
Joe Smooth,
Procol Harum,
Radiopuhelimet,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Intrusion,
Jacques Brel,
Public Image Ltd.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Junior Murvin,
Liliput,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Moleskins,
Absolute Body Control,
Inner City,
Lalann,
The Star Department,
Hot Snakes,
Scan 7,
Dead Boys,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Qualms,
Lindisfarne,
A Certain Ratio,
The Gladiators,
Von Mondo,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ultra Naté,
Sun Ra,
The Remains,
Peter & Gordon,
James White and The Blacks,
Public Enemy,
Blancmange,
One Last Wish,
Tommy Roe,
The Shadows of Knight,
Derrick May,
Au Pairs,
The Skatalites,
Essential Logic,
Gichy Dan,
Wire,
Hashim,
Marmalade,
Gabor Szabo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Yazoo,
Alton Ellis,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.