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 Mongolia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Buzzcocks. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks 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 '70s 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Busters,
The Kinks,
The Selecter,
Audionom,
Average White Band,
cv313,
Frankie Knuckles,
Kaleidoscope,
The Durutti Column,
Sällskapet,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sonic Youth,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Essential Logic,
Joyce Sims,
Los Fastidios,
Black Sheep,
Warsaw,
LL Cool J,
The Pretty Things,
Unrelated Segments,
Smog,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Neu!,
Eli Mardock,
Cymande,
Gang Gang Dance,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ludus,
Brass Construction,
Gabor Szabo,
the Sonics,
The Toasters,
Bobby Sherman,
Sixth Finger,
The Mojo Men,
Barbara Tucker,
The Raincoats,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Peter and Kerry,
The Moleskins,
Drive Like Jehu,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
MC5,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Curtis Mayfield,
Deadbeat,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Flesh Eaters,
Goldenarms,
Q65,
Lou Christie,
Schoolly D,
Thee Headcoats,
Royal Trux,
Von Mondo,
Reuben Wilson,
Slick Rick,
Rakim,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.