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 Jordan and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the snare 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 Skaos to the rock 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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All Unwound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doors,
Mantronix,
Glenn Branca,
Terry Callier,
Morten Harket,
Vladislav Delay,
World's Most,
The Electric Prunes,
Junior Murvin,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Todd Terry,
the Association,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rod Modell,
Pantytec,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Residents,
Alice Coltrane,
Gabor Szabo,
Sonny Sharrock,
Radiohead,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Scan 7,
Absolute Body Control,
John Lydon,
Rhythm & Sound,
Letta Mbulu,
Sparks,
New Order,
Michelle Simonal,
Oblivians,
Lightning Bolt,
Blake Baxter,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
B.T. Express,
Gang of Four,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Josef K,
Pet Shop Boys,
Dual Sessions,
John Cale,
The Dave Clark Five,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Heaven 17,
Livin' Joy,
Sugar Minott,
48th St. Collective,
Roger Hodgson,
Nation of Ulysses,
Black Pus,
Eli Mardock,
Stockholm Monsters,
Joy Division,
Banda Bassotti,
X-102,
cv313,
Sam Rivers,
MC5,
Unwound,
Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz.
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.