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 Niger and from Portland.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Japan to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Fall. All the underground hits.
All Von Mondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lonnie Liston Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Darondo,
Cecil Taylor,
Soul II Soul,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Subhumans,
Black Flag,
Peter & Gordon,
In Retrospect,
Sun City Girls,
The New Christs,
The Index,
Outsiders,
Eric Dolphy,
Zapp,
Massinfluence,
Lucky Dragons,
The Divine Comedy,
Wolf Eyes,
Bobby Sherman,
Boz Scaggs,
Index,
Drive Like Jehu,
Kerri Chandler,
The Misunderstood,
Leonard Cohen,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The American Breed,
New Order,
AZ,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lightning Bolt,
The Selecter,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eve St. Jones,
Faraquet,
Radiopuhelimet,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Blues Magoos,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
New Age Steppers,
Eric Copeland,
The United States of America,
Jeff Mills,
Donny Hathaway,
The Monochrome Set,
Thompson Twins,
The Mummies,
Neil Young,
Laurel Aitken,
T.S.O.L.,
Al Stewart,
Michelle Simonal,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Residents,
Davy DMX,
Little Man,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gregory Isaacs,
Cluster,
Surgeon, Surgeon, Surgeon, Surgeon.
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.