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 Madagascar and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the funk 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 The Dirtbombs. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Charles Mingus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Underground Resistance,
The Fugs,
R.M.O.,
Moss Icon,
The Offenders,
Roxy Music,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Subhumans,
Lightning Bolt,
Jerry's Kids,
Soulsonic Force,
The Mojo Men,
James White and The Blacks,
Eric B and Rakim,
Popol Vuh,
The Knickerbockers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Morten Harket,
New York Dolls,
The United States of America,
Juan Atkins,
Marmalade,
Ken Boothe,
Pharoah Sanders,
Graham Central Station,
Electric Prunes,
Unwound,
Cluster,
Silicon Teens,
The Shadows of Knight,
Soul II Soul,
X-Ray Spex,
Gong,
New Order,
Gerry Rafferty,
Black Sheep,
Don Cherry,
Soul Sonic Force,
Blake Baxter,
Mr. Review,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Aloha Tigers,
Schoolly D,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Brothers Johnson,
Gang Green,
Robert Hood,
Little Man,
A Certain Ratio,
Bauhaus,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lou Reed,
Ohio Players,
Lucky Dragons,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Al Stewart,
Easy Going,
Cal Tjader,
Lebanon Hanover,
Flash Fearless,
Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells.
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.