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 Belarus and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 organ 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 Scratch Acid to the rock 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 The Stooges. All the underground hits.
All Moby Grape tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Mummies,
The Saints,
Piero Umiliani,
Soft Cell,
Chrome,
Radiopuhelimet,
Black Pus,
Maleditus Sound,
Gang of Four,
Television Personalities,
Connie Case,
the Association,
Jandek,
The Fall,
Hardrive,
Loose Ends,
The Barracudas,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Erasure,
Alison Limerick,
Wire,
Ponytail,
Interpol,
Dave Gahan,
Peter and Kerry,
Fear,
Moebius,
Funky Four + One,
Average White Band,
Curtis Mayfield,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Hasil Adkins,
Public Enemy,
Easy Going,
Cameo,
Marvin Gaye,
John Cale,
Radiohead,
Lower 48,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Skatalites,
The Martian,
The Litter,
Charles Mingus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ultravox,
The Busters,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bizarre Inc.,
the Normal,
The Motions,
Chris Corsano,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Michelle Simonal,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Yusef Lateef,
Goldenarms,
The Real Kids,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.