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 Romania and from Tehran.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Edmonton.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the snare 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 The Zeros to the grunge 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 Black Pus. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pulsallama record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scratch Acid,
Alice Coltrane,
The Gladiators,
Buzzcocks,
Panda Bear,
Public Image Ltd.,
Robert Wyatt,
The Zeros,
David McCallum,
Electric Prunes,
Mandrill,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Davy DMX,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Thompson Twins,
Danielle Patucci,
Ituana,
Gang Starr,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Theoretical Girls,
Jeff Mills,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Altered Images,
Rites of Spring,
Rotary Connection,
Flamin' Groovies,
Todd Rundgren,
Man Parrish,
Chris Corsano,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Minutemen,
The Dead C,
Sunsets and Hearts,
D'Angelo,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Buckinghams,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
X-102,
Eric Copeland,
Deakin,
Gregory Isaacs,
Avey Tare,
Liliput,
Tom Boy,
the Slits,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gil Scott Heron,
Gabor Szabo,
Livin' Joy,
Morten Harket,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Boz Scaggs,
Rufus Thomas,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Country Joe & The Fish,
New Order,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Moby Grape,
Schoolly D,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.