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 Kitts & Nevis and from Mexico City.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 K-Klass to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Derrick May. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hashim,
Anakelly,
Los Fastidios,
Trumans Water,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Das Ding,
Alton Ellis,
Cal Tjader,
Ohio Players,
The Saints,
The Monks,
Sexual Harrassment,
Wings,
Fatback Band,
Quadrant,
Albert Ayler,
Public Enemy,
Swell Maps,
The J.B.'s,
Soulsonic Force,
The Fall,
Kenny Larkin,
Boogie Down Productions,
Barbara Tucker,
The Stooges,
Idris Muhammad,
Country Teasers,
Iggy Pop,
Minutemen,
Cybotron,
Essential Logic,
Sarah Menescal,
Gabor Szabo,
Bad Manners,
The Cowsills,
Lalann,
Cluster,
Morten Harket,
Fugazi,
Eric Copeland,
Zero Boys,
Howard Jones,
JFA,
Desert Stars,
David Axelrod,
Ornette Coleman,
Stereo Dub,
Maleditus Sound,
Harmonia,
The Index,
Crooked Eye,
the Normal,
Henry Cow,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Dave Gahan,
The Names,
Mission of Burma,
The Happenings,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kurtis Blow,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.