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 Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 guitar 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 Sun City Girls to the grime 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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Raincoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Girls At Our Best! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Thee Headcoats,
Cameo,
The Mummies,
Dawn Penn,
Ossler,
Roy Ayers,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Joe Finger,
Joyce Sims,
John Lydon,
Crash Course in Science,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Goldenarms,
Terry Callier,
Essential Logic,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Neon Judgement,
Theoretical Girls,
Alton Ellis,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Tres Demented,
Nik Kershaw,
The Fuzztones,
Clear Light,
Agitation Free,
Pulsallama,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Malaria!,
Swans,
The Slits,
Underground Resistance,
ABBA,
Country Teasers,
Sun Ra,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Skatalites,
Althea and Donna,
Pet Shop Boys,
Mantronix,
Davy DMX,
Jimmy McGriff,
Minor Threat,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lalann,
Whodini,
The Mojo Men,
The Monochrome Set,
Harmonia,
John Holt,
Fat Boys,
X-Ray Spex,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Nils Olav,
Cluster,
The Alarm Clocks,
James Chance & The Contortions,
DJ Style,
Judy Mowatt,
Zero Boys,
Skarface, Skarface, Skarface, Skarface.
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.