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 Brazil and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Chris & Cosey to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantytec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Electric Prunes,
Jerry's Kids,
the Slits,
Rites of Spring,
Boredoms,
Jacob Miller,
Ken Boothe,
Ultra Naté,
The Associates,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Raincoats,
The Dave Clark Five,
A Certain Ratio,
Roxette,
Skaos,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Faust,
Main Source,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
the Bar-Kays,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bush Tetras,
Mandrill,
Crooked Eye,
Young Marble Giants,
Althea and Donna,
X-Ray Spex,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Grey Daturas,
The Five Americans,
Heaven 17,
cv313,
The Dead C,
8 Eyed Spy,
Khruangbin,
Whodini,
K-Klass,
Joy Division,
Laurel Aitken,
Spoonie Gee,
Ralphi Rosario,
Swans,
X-101,
Rosa Yemen,
Fugazi,
The Fire Engines,
Nas,
The Velvet Underground,
Sonic Youth,
Desert Stars,
The Red Krayola,
E-Dancer,
Chris Corsano,
Lungfish,
Black Flag,
B.T. Express,
Rekid,
Peter & Gordon,
Make Up,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.