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 Venezuela and from Manchester.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Portland.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Traffic Nightmare to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lou Reed & John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barry Ungar record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar 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 spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Judy Mowatt,
DJ Style,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Cure,
The Misunderstood,
Q65,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Model 500,
The Flesh Eaters,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bootsy Collins,
Eric B and Rakim,
Isaac Hayes,
Peter & Gordon,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Skriet,
Lee Hazlewood,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Youth Brigade,
Second Layer,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Derrick May,
ABBA,
Neil Young,
June of 44,
Rites of Spring,
Banda Bassotti,
The Angels of Light,
Jacob Miller,
Accadde A,
The Gap Band,
Skaos,
Tubeway Army,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Music Machine,
Pierre Henry,
The Walker Brothers,
Barrington Levy,
Sex Pistols,
Saccharine Trust,
Lalo Schifrin,
Danielle Patucci,
Fluxion,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ohio Players,
New Order,
Magma,
Severed Heads,
David Bowie,
X-Ray Spex,
Janne Schatter,
MC5,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Motorama,
New Age Steppers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fall,
Fugazi,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies.
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.