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 Egypt and from Manchester.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Danielle Patucci to the punk 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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Black Pus,
Eve St. Jones,
Sonic Youth,
Althea and Donna,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Danielle Patucci,
Curtis Mayfield,
Harpers Bizarre,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Fugs,
The Litter,
The Fuzztones,
Sight & Sound,
Black Flag,
Lee Hazlewood,
Heaven 17,
Monolake,
Ohio Players,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ituana,
Silicon Teens,
DJ Style,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Busters,
Tears for Fears,
10cc,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
JFA,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Toasters,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Blancmange,
Agent Orange,
Jawbox,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Deakin,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Quadrant,
The Motions,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Adolescents,
Mandrill,
Fluxion,
the Soft Cell,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Fall,
Minutemen,
Funkadelic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bush Tetras,
the Bar-Kays,
Deepchord,
The Slits,
Janne Schatter,
Ossler,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.