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 Kosovo and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Pop Group to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris Corsano record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
B.T. Express,
Cybotron,
Hot Snakes,
Moss Icon,
Rotary Connection,
The Golliwogs,
Todd Terry,
Sugar Minott,
Ultra Naté,
H. Thieme,
The Fuzztones,
Patti Smith,
the Human League,
Chris Corsano,
Roxy Music,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Joey Negro,
Hasil Adkins,
Curtis Mayfield,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Urselle,
Sparks,
Liliput,
Nico,
Tomorrow,
The Cowsills,
Soul II Soul,
Black Moon,
Sandy B,
Vladislav Delay,
Masters at Work,
Sixth Finger,
Parry Music,
Animal Collective,
Ohio Players,
Jandek,
Make Up,
the Slits,
Sam Rivers,
The Pop Group,
Wings,
Audionom,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Little Man,
Spoonie Gee,
Depeche Mode,
Fatback Band,
Jawbox,
Alice Coltrane,
Nick Fraelich,
Warsaw,
Khruangbin,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.