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 El Salvador and from Toronto.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Funky Four + One to the techno 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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
The New Christs,
Toni Rubio,
Lucky Dragons,
Marine Girls,
Curtis Mayfield,
Excepter,
Dark Day,
Ponytail,
Tres Demented,
Andrew Hill,
Alison Limerick,
Scratch Acid,
Sound Behaviour,
Reuben Wilson,
The J.B.'s,
Eli Mardock,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Radiohead,
Skriet,
Sight & Sound,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Birthday Party,
Sun Ra,
Quantec,
Livin' Joy,
The Pretty Things,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Absolute Body Control,
Fatback Band,
The Young Rascals,
E-Dancer,
The Cramps,
Black Flag,
Delta 5,
Los Fastidios,
The Doobie Brothers,
The United States of America,
Dave Gahan,
The Gories,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
JFA,
The Dead C,
Technova,
Iggy Pop,
The Stooges,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ludus,
Icehouse,
The Zeros,
Wally Richardson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Von Mondo,
Lalann,
the Fania All-Stars,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Carl Craig,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.