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 Gambia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Toronto.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Jerry's Kids to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boredoms 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?
Visage,
Model 500,
10cc,
Minutemen,
Rosa Yemen,
Peter and Kerry,
Dawn Penn,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lalann,
Rotary Connection,
The Doors,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bang On A Can,
Iggy Pop,
Alison Limerick,
Basic Channel,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Kinks,
Guru Guru,
Buzzcocks,
Drexciya,
The New Christs,
Fela Kuti,
Soulsonic Force,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Roger Hodgson,
Desert Stars,
Jawbox,
The Real Kids,
The American Breed,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Panda Bear,
Ohio Players,
a-ha,
Loose Ends,
Erykah Badu,
Reagan Youth,
The Mummies,
Yaz,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lee Hazlewood,
Carl Craig,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Procol Harum,
Alphaville,
The Zeros,
LL Cool J,
Roy Ayers,
Dave Gahan,
Arcadia,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Monochrome Set,
Pagans,
the Bar-Kays,
Ralphi Rosario,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
MDC,
Don Cherry,
The Five Americans,
Wally Richardson,
Rakim,
Al Stewart,
Half Japanese,
The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs.
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.