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 Kosovo and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 clarinet 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 Youth Brigade to the grunge 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 John Holt. All the underground hits.
All David Axelrod tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Tears for Fears,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Oblivians,
The Modern Lovers,
Neil Young,
Brick,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Alice Coltrane,
Iggy Pop,
Ice-T,
The Beau Brummels,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Severed Heads,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lungfish,
Quando Quango,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Circle Jerks,
Derrick Morgan,
Buzzcocks,
Icehouse,
Reuben Wilson,
Matthew Halsall,
Alton Ellis,
Rapeman,
Skriet,
Quadrant,
Outsiders,
Grandmaster Flash,
Young Marble Giants,
New Age Steppers,
Jeff Lynne,
The Buckinghams,
Porter Ricks,
Oneida,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Boredoms,
Nils Olav,
Stereo Dub,
Franke,
Half Japanese,
the Soft Cell,
The Victims,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Raincoats,
Black Flag,
Bad Manners,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Smog,
Duran Duran,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Arthur Verocai,
Main Source,
The Slackers,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.