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 Montenegro and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 güiro 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 X-102 to the punk 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 Mars. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Osbourne,
Japan,
The Real Kids,
Jesper Dahlback,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lalann,
Hardrive,
Iggy Pop,
The Busters,
Dual Sessions,
D'Angelo,
Ohio Players,
Crispy Ambulance,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Minor Threat,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Average White Band,
Niagra,
The Residents,
Animal Collective,
Amon Düül,
Howard Jones,
Toni Rubio,
Fatback Band,
Tubeway Army,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Bobby Sherman,
Whodini,
Glambeats Corp.,
Moby Grape,
Eli Mardock,
Stereo Dub,
Al Stewart,
Parry Music,
Patti Smith,
In Retrospect,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Darondo,
Black Pus,
Dark Day,
Pere Ubu,
Pussy Galore,
Moebius,
The Fire Engines,
The Moleskins,
Young Marble Giants,
The Durutti Column,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Wake,
Infiniti,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Cameo,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Cecil Taylor,
Yellowson,
La Düsseldorf,
Brand Nubian,
The Evens,
Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton.
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.