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 Brunei and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Slits record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Hill 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?
Derrick Morgan,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Martian,
Rotary Connection,
The Monks,
The Move,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Doors,
Moss Icon,
Silicon Teens,
Grey Daturas,
X-Ray Spex,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gang Starr,
Mantronix,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Nation of Ulysses,
Todd Rundgren,
The Skatalites,
Young Marble Giants,
Mary Jane Girls,
X-102,
Negative Approach,
The Toasters,
Hardrive,
Oblivians,
James White and The Blacks,
Brass Construction,
Robert Wyatt,
Stetsasonic,
Q65,
Marine Girls,
Flash Fearless,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bauhaus,
Dorothy Ashby,
Surgeon,
Severed Heads,
Half Japanese,
cv313,
Eden Ahbez,
Agitation Free,
Fat Boys,
Dawn Penn,
Lebanon Hanover,
Jeff Lynne,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fugazi,
Niagra,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Marc Almond,
Quadrant,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
the Swans,
Stereo Dub,
Stiv Bators,
Ice-T,
Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus.
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.