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 France and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
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 Lou Reed & Metallica to the electroclash 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 Altered Images. All the underground hits.
All Malaria! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marvin Gaye record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Kayak,
The Sound,
Kaleidoscope,
Rakim,
Stereo Dub,
Nation of Ulysses,
Shoche,
Morten Harket,
The Martian,
The Walker Brothers,
Los Fastidios,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Man Eating Sloth,
Peter and Kerry,
Desert Stars,
Joyce Sims,
Masters at Work,
Circle Jerks,
Scientists,
Subhumans,
Main Source,
cv313,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Busters,
Al Stewart,
Audionom,
Panda Bear,
Supertramp,
Skriet,
Oneida,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Young Rascals,
Rapeman,
David Bowie,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Mo-Dettes,
Bang On A Can,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Loose Ends,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Iggy Pop,
Donald Byrd,
Mr. Review,
Cybotron,
Technova,
Suburban Knight,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Stockholm Monsters,
Cameo,
Toni Rubio,
U.S. Maple,
Tom Boy,
Section 25,
The Slits,
Monolake,
The Gladiators,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ossler,
Kool Moe Dee,
New Order,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.