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 Nigeria and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 marimba 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 Panda Bear to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Iggy Pop tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
The Neon Judgement,
Fear,
Jacques Brel,
Alton Ellis,
The Barracudas,
The Victims,
Arcadia,
Flipper,
Unwound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Qualms,
Jawbox,
Pulsallama,
Black Sheep,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Rapeman,
The Tremeloes,
Excepter,
Harmonia,
Shuggie Otis,
Babytalk,
Sun City Girls,
Television,
Altered Images,
Nas,
The Smiths,
Johnny Clarke,
Agitation Free,
The Fire Engines,
Alison Limerick,
The Slits,
Cluster,
AZ,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gong,
One Last Wish,
Sandy B,
Be Bop Deluxe,
JFA,
Unrelated Segments,
Popol Vuh,
Peter and Kerry,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Section 25,
Heaven 17,
Terrestrial Tones,
The United States of America,
The Count Five,
Fatback Band,
Half Japanese,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
T. Rex,
DJ Sneak,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Second Layer,
Howard Jones,
Joey Negro,
Harpers Bizarre,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.