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 Liberia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 organ 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 The Cramps to the techno 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 The Residents. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slackers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Saccharine Trust,
Moebius,
The Happenings,
Jeff Mills,
Jesper Dahlback,
Jacob Miller,
Silicon Teens,
Iggy Pop,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lee Hazlewood,
Roy Ayers,
The Flesh Eaters,
Supertramp,
Trumans Water,
Matthew Bourne,
Radiohead,
The Busters,
Niagra,
The Fortunes,
Accadde A,
ABC,
Kurtis Blow,
Arab on Radar,
Camberwell Now,
Flamin' Groovies,
Make Up,
Swans,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Funkadelic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Liliput,
Underground Resistance,
Lyres,
Oneida,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Suburban Knight,
Average White Band,
FM Einheit,
Bauhaus,
Wasted Youth,
Pulsallama,
Main Source,
Desert Stars,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Gladiators,
The Gap Band,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Second Layer,
The Gories,
The Sonics,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Gregory Isaacs,
Franke,
Jimmy McGriff,
the Association,
48th St. Collective,
Vainqueur,
Suicide,
The Music Machine,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.