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 Burkina and from Lagos.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Columbus.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 New Order to the grime 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Junior Murvin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Saints record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Names,
The Gun Club,
Delta 5,
Bobby Womack,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Sonics,
Joensuu 1685,
Q and Not U,
Das Ding,
PIL,
Siglo XX,
Lee Hazlewood,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Motorama,
the Swans,
Sonic Youth,
The Cure,
John Lydon,
The Skatalites,
Amon Düül II,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Toasters,
The Smiths,
Groovy Waters,
Camouflage,
Kerrie Biddell,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Robert Hood,
8 Eyed Spy,
the Human League,
Chris Corsano,
The Associates,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
cv313,
The Stooges,
Q65,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sparks,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Boredoms,
The Zeros,
Dorothy Ashby,
Isaac Hayes,
10cc,
Flipper,
Al Stewart,
Lower 48,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jacob Miller,
Sun Ra,
The Pretty Things,
Warsaw,
Dual Sessions,
Jesper Dahlback,
Don Cherry,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Index,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Busters,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.