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 Nauru and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All Larry & the Blue Notes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tres Demented record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ken Boothe,
Absolute Body Control,
Essential Logic,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Vogues,
Yellowson,
the Association,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Tubeway Army,
Aloha Tigers,
The Evens,
Kenny Larkin,
Albert Ayler,
Slave,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Excepter,
CMW,
Groovy Waters,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Mary Jane Girls,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Remains,
Japan,
Lalann,
Make Up,
Simply Red,
Bobby Womack,
Deadbeat,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Tremeloes,
Glenn Branca,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Amon Düül,
The Techniques,
Black Bananas,
Sam Rivers,
Sun Ra,
Joey Negro,
The Human League,
Monolake,
Marvin Gaye,
The Fugs,
Alison Limerick,
B.T. Express,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Spandau Ballet,
Soft Cell,
Dual Sessions,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Last Poets,
EPMD,
The Flesh Eaters,
Mark Hollis,
New Age Steppers,
Ponytail,
MC5,
Nation of Ulysses,
Man Parrish,
Piero Umiliani,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.