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 the UAE and from Portland.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Philadelphia.
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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Smiths. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crispy Ambulance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
cv313,
Janne Schatter,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Letta Mbulu,
The Happenings,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Agent Orange,
Nils Olav,
Susan Cadogan,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sällskapet,
The Seeds,
10cc,
Lucky Dragons,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Avey Tare,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bob Dylan,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Infiniti,
Metal Thangz,
Andrew Hill,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gang of Four,
Livin' Joy,
Idris Muhammad,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Soft Machine,
David Axelrod,
Depeche Mode,
Crime,
Delta 5,
Sonny Sharrock,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Don Cherry,
Procol Harum,
Jandek,
Scrapy,
Yusef Lateef,
James White and The Blacks,
Pantaleimon,
Chrome,
Sight & Sound,
The Associates,
Severed Heads,
Cheater Slicks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Section 25,
Newcleus,
Pharoah Sanders,
Basic Channel,
The Dead C,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sun Ra,
Tears for Fears,
The Techniques,
The Searchers,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.