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 Belgium and from Bremen.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 F. McDonald to the crunk 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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Strawberry Alarm Clock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Stooges 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Style,
Lower 48,
John Lydon,
Fad Gadget,
Lucky Dragons,
AZ,
Bizarre Inc.,
Archie Shepp,
The Mighty Diamonds,
World's Most,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lyres,
Avey Tare,
Dave Gahan,
Ralphi Rosario,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fatback Band,
Marine Girls,
The Kinks,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Walker Brothers,
Maurizio,
The Electric Prunes,
Y Pants,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rapeman,
The Cowsills,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Searchers,
Wally Richardson,
Liliput,
The Beau Brummels,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Monks,
cv313,
David Axelrod,
Make Up,
These Immortal Souls,
Juan Atkins,
Henry Cow,
Magma,
KRS-One,
The Gories,
Hardrive,
Guru Guru,
Youth Brigade,
The Litter,
Brick,
Unrelated Segments,
Heaven 17,
The Dave Clark Five,
Cybotron,
Black Flag,
Robert Görl,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hasil Adkins,
The Offenders,
Bush Tetras,
Sixth Finger,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.