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 Mexico and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the dance 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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All The Fall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fela Kuti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Minnie Riperton,
Ohio Players,
Scan 7,
Archie Shepp,
Hasil Adkins,
The Black Dice,
John Foxx,
Television,
Toni Rubio,
The Fugs,
Wolf Eyes,
Eric Copeland,
Rekid,
Public Enemy,
The Human League,
The Gap Band,
Piero Umiliani,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gang Gang Dance,
Yellowson,
Wire,
Yusef Lateef,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rites of Spring,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Zero Boys,
Sight & Sound,
Monolake,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Prince Buster,
Monks,
Slave,
The Victims,
Niagra,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
FM Einheit,
Todd Terry,
Bobby Byrd,
a-ha,
New Order,
The Seeds,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Neon Judgement,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Fluxion,
Lalann,
Excepter,
X-Ray Spex,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Supertramp,
The Pop Group,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
John Lydon,
Audionom,
One Last Wish,
Ten City,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lucky Dragons,
Ice-T,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.