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 Jamaica and from Sao Paulo.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Lou Reed 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 The Mighty Diamonds to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Glenn Branca tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camouflage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reuben Wilson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Kevin Saunderson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Danielle Patucci,
Swell Maps,
Peter & Gordon,
Boredoms,
Susan Cadogan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Suicide,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Happenings,
Newcleus,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
R.M.O.,
The Moody Blues,
the Soft Cell,
Gregory Isaacs,
Scientists,
Brothers Johnson,
Harpers Bizarre,
Mr. Review,
Leonard Cohen,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Cure,
Nation of Ulysses,
Chris Corsano,
ABC,
The Pop Group,
Electric Prunes,
Swans,
The Misunderstood,
Bauhaus,
Robert Görl,
Kenny Larkin,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dark Day,
Minny Pops,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Television Personalities,
Scott Walker,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sonic Youth,
Scrapy,
Stereo Dub,
Das Ding,
Fat Boys,
Wire,
Second Layer,
Jimmy McGriff,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Grauzone,
The Offenders,
Nas,
The Index,
The Electric Prunes,
Colin Newman,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.