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 Jamaica and from Toronto.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and New York.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Buckinghams to the rap 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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Slick Rick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Joe & The Fish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
David Axelrod,
Underground Resistance,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Mo-Dettes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
In Retrospect,
Swell Maps,
JFA,
Easy Going,
Deadbeat,
Interpol,
Scott Walker,
Goldenarms,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Fugazi,
Lucky Dragons,
The Martian,
10cc,
Tres Demented,
Anakelly,
Sarah Menescal,
Second Layer,
Idris Muhammad,
The Alarm Clocks,
cv313,
Leonard Cohen,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Amazonics,
The Residents,
X-101,
The Human League,
The Fortunes,
Depeche Mode,
Section 25,
The Electric Prunes,
The Real Kids,
Danielle Patucci,
Dark Day,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Mr. Review,
Rotary Connection,
The Trojans,
Isaac Hayes,
The American Breed,
AZ,
Marcia Griffiths,
Johnny Clarke,
Alphaville,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Massinfluence,
The Durutti Column,
Yellowson,
Colin Newman,
Silicon Teens,
Agitation Free,
Yazoo,
Dorothy Ashby,
John Lydon,
June Days,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.