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 Iran and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 spring reverb 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 Hashim to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yaz,
Godley & Creme,
Moby Grape,
The Modern Lovers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Monks,
Byron Stingily,
Brick,
Black Flag,
Flipper,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Leaves,
The Tremeloes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Neu!,
Warren Ellis,
R.M.O.,
Peter and Kerry,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bad Manners,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fatback Band,
Ralphi Rosario,
kango's stein massive,
Von Mondo,
Black Pus,
ABC,
Don Cherry,
The Fire Engines,
Reuben Wilson,
Interpol,
Chris Corsano,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Suicide,
10cc,
Bobby Womack,
Black Bananas,
Mo-Dettes,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Monochrome Set,
Yellowson,
Ultravox,
UT,
the Association,
Grauzone,
Tom Boy,
John Holt,
Angry Samoans,
James White and The Blacks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Joy Division,
Agitation Free,
Stockholm Monsters,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Count Five,
Delta 5,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Litter,
Eddi Front,
Quantec,
Kevin Saunderson,
Darondo, Darondo, Darondo, Darondo.
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.