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 Ghana and from Beijing.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Procol Harum to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Infiniti,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Monochrome Set,
Masters at Work,
Girls At Our Best!,
Subhumans,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Tomorrow,
X-102,
Marc Almond,
Aural Exciters,
The Divine Comedy,
Y Pants,
Ponytail,
Audionom,
Marine Girls,
Warsaw,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Symarip,
Depeche Mode,
Howard Jones,
The Associates,
Danielle Patucci,
Oblivians,
Altered Images,
The Residents,
Country Joe & The Fish,
the Fania All-Stars,
Anakelly,
Aloha Tigers,
Bush Tetras,
Spandau Ballet,
In Retrospect,
Andrew Hill,
Dark Day,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Clear Light,
Lucky Dragons,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Smoke,
a-ha,
Thee Headcoats,
Yazoo,
The J.B.'s,
Severed Heads,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Livin' Joy,
Easy Going,
Flipper,
Organ,
Idris Muhammad,
Erykah Badu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mandrill,
Ronan,
Gang Gang Dance,
Josef K,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sandy B,
Ituana,
Deadbeat,
Ken Boothe,
Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler.
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.