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 Andorra and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe 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 Birthday Party to the grunge 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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Teenage Jesus and the Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arthur Verocai,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Quadrant,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Junior Murvin,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sonic Youth,
Gang Starr,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Knickerbockers,
Wolf Eyes,
Flash Fearless,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pagans,
The Velvet Underground,
Mark Hollis,
OOIOO,
Pharoah Sanders,
Quantec,
Monolake,
Con Funk Shun,
The Beau Brummels,
Severed Heads,
Make Up,
Angry Samoans,
Parry Music,
Ituana,
Robert Hood,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Terry Callier,
Bootsy Collins,
The Durutti Column,
Man Eating Sloth,
Rufus Thomas,
The Leaves,
Joey Negro,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
a-ha,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Davy DMX,
Fugazi,
These Immortal Souls,
Sound Behaviour,
The Monochrome Set,
Soulsonic Force,
Slick Rick,
X-102,
Malaria!,
Rosa Yemen,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gang Green,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Wings,
ABC,
Faraquet,
Spoonie Gee,
Avey Tare,
The Techniques,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.