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 Sudan and from Jakarta.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Gun Club to the techno 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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All The Searchers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harry Pussy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June of 44 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Shoche,
Warsaw,
Aural Exciters,
Aloha Tigers,
Gang Green,
Michelle Simonal,
Althea and Donna,
Scratch Acid,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Vogues,
Wasted Youth,
Isaac Hayes,
Joe Smooth,
Yellowson,
The Sonics,
The Gap Band,
Johnny Clarke,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gang Gang Dance,
Section 25,
Aaron Thompson,
ABC,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Blossom Toes,
Eric B and Rakim,
Cameo,
Frankie Knuckles,
Delon & Dalcan,
Agent Orange,
Lower 48,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Offenders,
Kaleidoscope,
The Raincoats,
The Fugs,
Rites of Spring,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Erasure,
The Black Dice,
Black Bananas,
This Heat,
The Human League,
Godley & Creme,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Smog,
Kenny Larkin,
David Bowie,
Deadbeat,
The Sound,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Eli Mardock,
Junior Murvin,
Boogie Down Productions,
Robert Görl,
Sam Rivers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Vladislav Delay,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Deepchord,
L. Decosne,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.