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 Mali and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 chamberlin 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 Scion to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Pharoah Sanders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Royal Trux 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pere Ubu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
Danielle Patucci,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Joe Smooth,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Flash Fearless,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Slits,
Ralphi Rosario,
Boogie Down Productions,
Josef K,
China Crisis,
John Coltrane,
Eddi Front,
Skaos,
Ohio Players,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Godley & Creme,
Robert Wyatt,
Hot Snakes,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Royal Trux,
Easy Going,
Sparks,
Stetsasonic,
Roxy Music,
Minutemen,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Terry Callier,
The Sound,
The New Christs,
Quando Quango,
Alison Limerick,
Joy Division,
Gastr Del Sol,
Suburban Knight,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lou Reed,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Eric Copeland,
Ronan,
Liliput,
10cc,
The Last Poets,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Agent Orange,
Scientists,
The Count Five,
Lucky Dragons,
Ken Boothe,
The Cure,
Maurizio,
Moss Icon,
These Immortal Souls,
The Doobie Brothers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sarah Menescal,
Pantytec,
Soft Machine,
MC5,
Gang Green,
Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs.
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.