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 Mexico 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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Funkadelic to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Smog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythm & Sound,
Moebius,
Pole,
MC5,
Young Marble Giants,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
DJ Sneak,
Glambeats Corp.,
Nation of Ulysses,
Tommy Roe,
Laurel Aitken,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lucky Dragons,
Icehouse,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rites of Spring,
Dual Sessions,
Peter & Gordon,
The Gap Band,
Reagan Youth,
Brass Construction,
Sun City Girls,
Slick Rick,
Terry Callier,
Scratch Acid,
Aswad,
Robert Wyatt,
Shuggie Otis,
Dark Day,
John Lydon,
Aural Exciters,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Eric Copeland,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
A Certain Ratio,
B.T. Express,
Davy DMX,
Erykah Badu,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Public Image Ltd.,
Procol Harum,
Terrestrial Tones,
John Foxx,
Graham Central Station,
Sex Pistols,
The Doobie Brothers,
the Association,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Peter and Kerry,
Nas,
Index,
John Cale,
Nico,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Litter,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Slackers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.