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 South Sudan and from Seoul.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Suicide to the rap 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 Graham Central Station. All the underground hits.
All Buzzcocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
Dead Boys,
Quando Quango,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
In Retrospect,
Black Flag,
Johnny Osbourne,
Franke,
Essential Logic,
Swans,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
JFA,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Arab on Radar,
Panda Bear,
Black Moon,
DNA,
Skaos,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bill Near,
Yusef Lateef,
The Real Kids,
Dark Day,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Motorama,
LL Cool J,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Flipper,
The Star Department,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Malaria!,
Lou Reed,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Kinks,
Visage,
James White and The Blacks,
Aaron Thompson,
The American Breed,
the Bar-Kays,
B.T. Express,
Tommy Roe,
Moby Grape,
The Smiths,
Sonny Sharrock,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
K-Klass,
Minnie Riperton,
Public Enemy,
R.M.O.,
Royal Trux,
La Düsseldorf,
Mars,
Youth Brigade,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Roy Ayers,
Gong,
Alice Coltrane,
Scion,
Bob Dylan,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sugar Minott,
Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims.
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.