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 Nicaragua and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Qualms to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Althea and Donna record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crash Course in Science record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Trojans,
Ronan,
Crispian St. Peters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Subhumans,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The J.B.'s,
Robert Görl,
The Standells,
Trumans Water,
Kurtis Blow,
Piero Umiliani,
Shuggie Otis,
The Gladiators,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Clear Light,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ultimate Spinach,
Essential Logic,
Fatback Band,
Darondo,
Derrick May,
Grandmaster Flash,
Masters at Work,
Maurizio,
Grey Daturas,
Bad Manners,
Gastr Del Sol,
Youth Brigade,
The Seeds,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Dawn Penn,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Barbara Tucker,
Faraquet,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Porter Ricks,
Monolake,
Ituana,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Gories,
Stiv Bators,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Last Poets,
Altered Images,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Delon & Dalcan,
Shoche,
the Swans,
Althea and Donna,
Bobby Womack,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Soul Sonic Force,
Wolf Eyes,
R.M.O.,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
ABC,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.