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 Bahamas and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Delhi.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Soulsonic Force to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Prunes,
Boogie Down Productions,
Babytalk,
Animal Collective,
The Gap Band,
ABC,
Sun Ra,
The Black Dice,
Youth Brigade,
Hot Snakes,
Visage,
Robert Görl,
Banda Bassotti,
Barbara Tucker,
Archie Shepp,
Junior Murvin,
Peter & Gordon,
Brick,
Stetsasonic,
Main Source,
the Swans,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Boredoms,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Public Enemy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Robert Hood,
Crispian St. Peters,
A Certain Ratio,
Jawbox,
The Velvet Underground,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minutemen,
Henry Cow,
Mark Hollis,
the Germs,
Tomorrow,
John Lydon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Von Mondo,
Jimmy McGriff,
Deakin,
Sandy B,
Soul Sonic Force,
Tommy Roe,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Residents,
Peter and Kerry,
The Raincoats,
The Busters,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Nick Fraelich,
Heaven 17,
Trumans Water,
DNA,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Faust,
Marshall Jefferson,
Alison Limerick,
Deadbeat,
Sparks, Sparks, Sparks, Sparks.
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.