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 Paraguay and from Woodstock.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Leonard Cohen to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Idris Muhammad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Five Americans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Supertramp,
Sarah Menescal,
Lower 48,
Aloha Tigers,
The Mummies,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Altered Images,
Bill Wells,
Bob Dylan,
Bizarre Inc.,
Flash Fearless,
Hoover,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Skarface,
Suburban Knight,
Rotary Connection,
The Motions,
Unwound,
Throbbing Gristle,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fugazi,
DNA,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Durutti Column,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Tommy Roe,
Hasil Adkins,
Lalann,
Nico,
Reagan Youth,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sight & Sound,
Robert Wyatt,
Jeff Mills,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Carl Craig,
Lindisfarne,
Pere Ubu,
Hashim,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Porter Ricks,
Stetsasonic,
Scott Walker,
Alphaville,
Banda Bassotti,
Sixth Finger,
Q65,
Gang Gang Dance,
Audionom,
Wasted Youth,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Harry Pussy,
Theoretical Girls,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gang Starr,
Swans, Swans, Swans, Swans.
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.