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 Niger and from Salvador.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 arpeggiator 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 Kool Moe Dee to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Heavy D & The Boyz. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Bourne,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
10cc,
Underground Resistance,
Deakin,
Joy Division,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Joe Smooth,
Simply Red,
Cymande,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Eric B and Rakim,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Unrelated Segments,
The Divine Comedy,
Bobby Byrd,
Second Layer,
Average White Band,
Crime,
KRS-One,
Theoretical Girls,
Moss Icon,
AZ,
Minor Threat,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sixth Finger,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Roy Ayers,
Stockholm Monsters,
Roxette,
Model 500,
Maurizio,
F. McDonald,
Don Cherry,
Q65,
Funky Four + One,
Rapeman,
8 Eyed Spy,
Prince Buster,
Nation of Ulysses,
the Association,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Camouflage,
The Saints,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bill Wells,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Five Americans,
Sonny Sharrock,
Negative Approach,
Kevin Saunderson,
T. Rex,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Velvet Underground,
FM Einheit,
K-Klass,
Visage,
The Move,
Patti Smith,
Guru Guru,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.