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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Edmonton.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Ronnie Foster to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
ABC,
Metal Thangz,
Babytalk,
Mark Hollis,
Quando Quango,
Adolescents,
Robert Görl,
Youth Brigade,
Gregory Isaacs,
Dennis Brown,
Banda Bassotti,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Dual Sessions,
Don Cherry,
June of 44,
The Skatalites,
the Soft Cell,
Wolf Eyes,
Brand Nubian,
Lucky Dragons,
Echospace,
Kerri Chandler,
the Fania All-Stars,
Chrome,
Ten City,
David Bowie,
Henry Cow,
Japan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Neil Young,
Big Daddy Kane,
Yaz,
Vainqueur,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Surgeon,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Velvet Underground,
Zero Boys,
Stiv Bators,
Kas Product,
Delta 5,
Index,
Gang Green,
The Invisible,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Infiniti,
Bootsy Collins,
Stereo Dub,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Excepter,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Fugazi,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Reuben Wilson,
Kevin Saunderson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mission of Burma,
Ultravox,
Iggy Pop,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.