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 Burundi and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Matthew Halsall 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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Near 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Juan Atkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Porter Ricks,
Ohio Players,
Sällskapet,
Ultra Naté,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marc Almond,
Mark Hollis,
X-102,
Duran Duran,
The Music Machine,
Easy Going,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lou Reed,
Prince Buster,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lungfish,
Flash Fearless,
Fugazi,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bob Dylan,
Roxy Music,
Zapp,
Soft Cell,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Red Krayola,
Pierre Henry,
Electric Prunes,
Excepter,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Nils Olav,
John Foxx,
Erykah Badu,
The Fortunes,
The Barracudas,
Outsiders,
John Holt,
Banda Bassotti,
Faraquet,
The Slits,
Oblivians,
Pylon,
Mary Jane Girls,
Kool Moe Dee,
Idris Muhammad,
Barry Ungar,
Pussy Galore,
Sparks,
Fluxion,
10cc,
The Happenings,
Tom Boy,
Icehouse,
One Last Wish,
Ossler,
Lindisfarne,
The Motions,
Graham Central Station,
Scrapy,
Black Flag,
Lou Christie,
the Fania All-Stars,
Davy DMX,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.