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 Ecuador and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 synthesizer 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Blake Baxter. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crooked Eye 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord 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?
Spoonie Gee,
Lakeside,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Negative Approach,
Adolescents,
Patti Smith,
Danielle Patucci,
Marmalade,
Barbara Tucker,
The Gories,
Wasted Youth,
Shuggie Otis,
Flash Fearless,
Whodini,
Sonny Sharrock,
Funkadelic,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
T.S.O.L.,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Grass Roots,
Ten City,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Wally Richardson,
These Immortal Souls,
Monolake,
Brand Nubian,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Michelle Simonal,
Groovy Waters,
Severed Heads,
PIL,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lindisfarne,
T. Rex,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Reagan Youth,
The Red Krayola,
Scratch Acid,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sister Nancy,
Audionom,
The Evens,
Derrick May,
Kenny Larkin,
Dave Gahan,
The J.B.'s,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Black Dice,
Johnny Clarke,
Nirvana,
Soft Machine,
Royal Trux,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Last Poets,
L. Decosne,
The Doobie Brothers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Normal,
Mary Jane Girls,
Amon Düül,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.