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 South Africa and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Eyeless In Gaza to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every B.T. Express 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 48th St. Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
Lou Reed,
Thompson Twins,
The Pretty Things,
A Certain Ratio,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Arcadia,
Rosa Yemen,
The Moleskins,
The Misunderstood,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Young Rascals,
The Modern Lovers,
Dual Sessions,
ABBA,
Kenny Larkin,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Groovy Waters,
Agitation Free,
Kurtis Blow,
Deadbeat,
Amon Düül,
Swans,
Grey Daturas,
K-Klass,
FM Einheit,
June of 44,
Cybotron,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Flash Fearless,
Can,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Mo-Dettes,
T.S.O.L.,
Jesper Dahlback,
Jeru the Damaja,
Neu!,
Warsaw,
Crash Course in Science,
Ultimate Spinach,
Albert Ayler,
Niagra,
Fluxion,
KRS-One,
Q65,
Scratch Acid,
Intrusion,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Seeds,
Pierre Henry,
Buzzcocks,
Gang Green,
Tommy Roe,
The Last Poets,
Sight & Sound,
Theoretical Girls,
The Count Five,
Laurel Aitken,
The Skatalites,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson.
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.