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 Guyana and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 clarinet 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 Mo-Dettes to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eli Mardock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
La Düsseldorf,
Technova,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Standells,
Scientists,
Cecil Taylor,
Byron Stingily,
John Lydon,
Aloha Tigers,
Drive Like Jehu,
the Fania All-Stars,
Public Enemy,
Vainqueur,
The Techniques,
Archie Shepp,
The Human League,
Neil Young,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Au Pairs,
June of 44,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Television,
Severed Heads,
Y Pants,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Loose Ends,
The Stooges,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Cure,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Slackers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Warren Ellis,
The Vogues,
New Order,
Spandau Ballet,
Fugazi,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Velvet Underground,
Piero Umiliani,
Groovy Waters,
Ronan,
Avey Tare,
Parry Music,
Model 500,
The Pop Group,
The Electric Prunes,
Yellowson,
Scion,
The United States of America,
Faust,
Davy DMX,
The Dirtbombs,
Robert Görl,
Gang Gang Dance,
John Coltrane,
The Gap Band,
Swans,
The Selecter,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.