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 Haiti and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 güiro 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 Dead Boys to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
Minor Threat,
Joy Division,
The Moleskins,
Whodini,
The Fuzztones,
Eurythmics,
Outsiders,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ituana,
The Real Kids,
Urselle,
Mary Jane Girls,
Boz Scaggs,
The Monks,
Nas,
The Black Dice,
Unrelated Segments,
Iggy Pop,
The Invisible,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kas Product,
Joe Smooth,
Can,
Mo-Dettes,
Tropical Tobacco,
Chris & Cosey,
The Grass Roots,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rufus Thomas,
Massinfluence,
Man Eating Sloth,
Qualms,
Kerrie Biddell,
Silicon Teens,
Lalo Schifrin,
ABBA,
Eyeless In Gaza,
World's Most,
Erasure,
Wolf Eyes,
Negative Approach,
Intrusion,
Roxy Music,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
FM Einheit,
Man Parrish,
Terry Callier,
Nick Fraelich,
Swell Maps,
Brothers Johnson,
Spoonie Gee,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Max Romeo,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ornette Coleman,
The Smiths,
Khruangbin,
Jimmy McGriff,
Symarip,
The Techniques,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.