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 Netherlands and from Spokane.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
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 Brass Construction to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Blancmange. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sister Nancy,
FM Einheit,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Zero Boys,
Janne Schatter,
The Happenings,
The Barracudas,
Joy Division,
Bootsy Collins,
Television Personalities,
Neil Young,
Wolf Eyes,
Quando Quango,
Yazoo,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Negative Approach,
Eurythmics,
Mission of Burma,
Terry Callier,
The Shadows of Knight,
Metal Thangz,
Radiohead,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Monks,
Camberwell Now,
Silicon Teens,
Fatback Band,
Sugar Minott,
Pussy Galore,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Charles Mingus,
Toni Rubio,
John Holt,
Symarip,
Monolake,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Buckinghams,
Excepter,
Wings,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ronan,
Fad Gadget,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lower 48,
Godley & Creme,
cv313,
Throbbing Gristle,
New Order,
LL Cool J,
Bob Dylan,
Don Cherry,
The Golliwogs,
The Detroit Cobras,
Deadbeat,
Accadde A,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Real Kids,
Soul II Soul,
Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca.
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.