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 Djibouti and from Woodstock.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Public Enemy to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Slackers. All the underground hits.
All The Flesh Eaters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skriet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Das Ding,
The Raincoats,
Negative Approach,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lalann,
Minnie Riperton,
June Days,
Aloha Tigers,
Con Funk Shun,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Chrome,
Peter & Gordon,
Skarface,
Joe Finger,
Dorothy Ashby,
Reagan Youth,
The Searchers,
Laurel Aitken,
Roxette,
Excepter,
Pet Shop Boys,
Porter Ricks,
Eurythmics,
Ash Ra Tempel,
X-102,
AZ,
CMW,
Minor Threat,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sexual Harrassment,
Joy Division,
Moby Grape,
Grey Daturas,
Can,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Icehouse,
Nils Olav,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rod Modell,
Alison Limerick,
Section 25,
Wings,
New York Dolls,
Amazonics,
Freddie Wadling,
Thee Headcoats,
World's Most,
Bobby Sherman,
The Walker Brothers,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
JFA,
Accadde A,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Invisible,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Red Krayola,
David McCallum,
Terrestrial Tones,
Buzzcocks,
the Sonics,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.