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 Afghanistan and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 New Christs to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Faraquet. All the underground hits.
All Oblivians tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Dark Day,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Zeros,
Bobby Byrd,
Loose Ends,
Animal Collective,
Bush Tetras,
Gang Green,
Radiohead,
Soul Sonic Force,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Boogie Down Productions,
Todd Terry,
Fluxion,
Marine Girls,
Fad Gadget,
The Buckinghams,
Matthew Bourne,
Shoche,
Gichy Dan,
Neil Young,
Mad Mike,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Black Bananas,
The Residents,
the Bar-Kays,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gastr Del Sol,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Outsiders,
Theoretical Girls,
Scrapy,
Sex Pistols,
Camouflage,
Suburban Knight,
Sound Behaviour,
MDC,
David Bowie,
Arab on Radar,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Yazoo,
Yusef Lateef,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Minutemen,
Nick Fraelich,
The Searchers,
Jesper Dahlback,
DNA,
Scientists,
Quantec,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Moss Icon,
the Sonics,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
John Lydon,
JFA,
Scratch Acid,
Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome.
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.