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 Japan and from Tokyo.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Drexciya to the funk 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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Vainqueur tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
Gastr Del Sol,
Black Moon,
Moebius,
Q65,
KRS-One,
the Sonics,
Brass Construction,
Y Pants,
Colin Newman,
Blossom Toes,
Smog,
Warsaw,
Ice-T,
Charles Mingus,
Delta 5,
Duran Duran,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Move,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Q and Not U,
Das Ding,
MDC,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Seeds,
The Zeros,
Sugar Minott,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
A Certain Ratio,
AZ,
The Durutti Column,
The Fuzztones,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
David McCallum,
Shoche,
Faraquet,
Oblivians,
Derrick Morgan,
John Coltrane,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Negative Approach,
Mars,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Technova,
Slick Rick,
Traffic Nightmare,
Livin' Joy,
Theoretical Girls,
Boogie Down Productions,
Carl Craig,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kerri Chandler,
Monolake,
Stereo Dub,
The Smiths,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sun City Girls,
CMW,
Underground Resistance,
Whodini,
Cecil Taylor,
Stiv Bators,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.