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 St Lucia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Franke to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Freddie Wadling. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Enemy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set 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?
Roger Hodgson,
The Fall,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sound Behaviour,
The Cowsills,
Roxy Music,
Stockholm Monsters,
Anthony Braxton,
Au Pairs,
Matthew Bourne,
Sight & Sound,
Eden Ahbez,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ronan,
The Gun Club,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bob Dylan,
The Birthday Party,
Flash Fearless,
The Offenders,
Derrick Morgan,
Vainqueur,
Kas Product,
Lalo Schifrin,
Amon Düül II,
Letta Mbulu,
Radiohead,
Alton Ellis,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ten City,
Quantec,
Bronski Beat,
Boredoms,
DJ Style,
Bizarre Inc.,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Leaves,
The Monochrome Set,
Sarah Menescal,
Suburban Knight,
Scan 7,
Slick Rick,
Yazoo,
Joe Smooth,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Neil Young,
Crooked Eye,
Peter & Gordon,
The Sonics,
The Velvet Underground,
Buzzcocks,
Interpol,
Camouflage,
Jeff Mills,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ultra Naté,
Second Layer,
Minnie Riperton,
The Sound,
Erasure,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Nation of Ulysses,
Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
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.