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 Botswana and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Lou Reed 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 Pretty Things to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe 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 sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Easy Going,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dual Sessions,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Angry Samoans,
Lyres,
Flamin' Groovies,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Interpol,
Accadde A,
Andrew Hill,
The Zeros,
Pole,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Donald Byrd,
Stiv Bators,
Quadrant,
Technova,
Glenn Branca,
Glambeats Corp.,
Alton Ellis,
The Sonics,
John Foxx,
New York Dolls,
Wire,
Agitation Free,
Crash Course in Science,
Duran Duran,
Hardrive,
The Searchers,
Rhythm & Sound,
Skaos,
Joyce Sims,
Nation of Ulysses,
Danielle Patucci,
Audionom,
Arthur Verocai,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Fugazi,
Girls At Our Best!,
Laurel Aitken,
Ludus,
The Techniques,
Ultravox,
Avey Tare,
Cheater Slicks,
The Stooges,
Joy Division,
Pet Shop Boys,
Barry Ungar,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sixth Finger,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Tomorrow,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Erasure,
Jacob Miller,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sound Behaviour,
The Invisible,
Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes.
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.