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 Greece and from Winnipeg.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Salvador.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Goldenarms,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Pharoah Sanders,
Delon & Dalcan,
Piero Umiliani,
Eurythmics,
Chris Corsano,
Theoretical Girls,
Kurtis Blow,
AZ,
Roy Ayers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Banda Bassotti,
The Associates,
Altered Images,
Maurizio,
DJ Style,
Chris & Cosey,
Suburban Knight,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sixth Finger,
The Gap Band,
Kerrie Biddell,
Morten Harket,
LL Cool J,
Moby Grape,
Thompson Twins,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bronski Beat,
Pantaleimon,
Swell Maps,
The Fugs,
cv313,
Joy Division,
Malaria!,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Yusef Lateef,
Sonic Youth,
Grauzone,
ABC,
Pagans,
The Residents,
Anakelly,
The Blackbyrds,
Althea and Donna,
Roxette,
Brass Construction,
Blake Baxter,
Ronnie Foster,
Bad Manners,
La Düsseldorf,
Minny Pops,
Jeff Lynne,
Wolf Eyes,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Dave Clark Five,
Half Japanese,
Tubeway Army,
Reagan Youth,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.