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 Algeria and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 Calgary and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Pop Group. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jawbox,
Glenn Branca,
Cluster,
Bluetip,
Sparks,
Newcleus,
DNA,
Deakin,
The Kinks,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gang Green,
Tubeway Army,
Hashim,
The Moleskins,
Dead Boys,
Bobbi Humphrey,
ABC,
June of 44,
Boredoms,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fat Boys,
EPMD,
Wasted Youth,
Zapp,
Fluxion,
Funky Four + One,
Whodini,
Harmonia,
Chris Corsano,
F. McDonald,
Gang Starr,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Standells,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Blancmange,
The Shadows of Knight,
Pet Shop Boys,
Tres Demented,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pierre Henry,
Main Source,
The Blackbyrds,
Mission of Burma,
Prince Buster,
John Coltrane,
Agitation Free,
Angry Samoans,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Blues Magoos,
Crash Course in Science,
Ten City,
X-101,
The Gap Band,
Donald Byrd,
Clear Light,
Scratch Acid,
Crispian St. Peters,
48th St. Collective,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.