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 Belarus and from Milan.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the güiro 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 The J.B.'s to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Rhythm & Sound,
Matthew Bourne,
The Remains,
Michelle Simonal,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Hardrive,
Robert Hood,
Toni Rubio,
Minny Pops,
The Fortunes,
The Seeds,
Terrestrial Tones,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Piero Umiliani,
Pole,
The Neon Judgement,
The Sonics,
The Tremeloes,
Roxette,
Scratch Acid,
Kas Product,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Radiohead,
KRS-One,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rites of Spring,
Godley & Creme,
Barrington Levy,
Massinfluence,
Bill Wells,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Boogie Down Productions,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Flash Fearless,
The Red Krayola,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Robert Görl,
Gang of Four,
Shoche,
Ultra Naté,
Brass Construction,
The Black Dice,
Kenny Larkin,
Urselle,
Tom Boy,
EPMD,
Underground Resistance,
The Evens,
Janne Schatter,
Boz Scaggs,
Icehouse,
Section 25,
Zapp,
Whodini,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Au Pairs,
AZ,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Outsiders,
Hasil Adkins,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.