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 Eritrea and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Birthday Party. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crispy Ambulance,
The Monochrome Set,
Frankie Knuckles,
Siglo XX,
The Slits,
Basic Channel,
Schoolly D,
Symarip,
Joe Finger,
Rhythm & Sound,
Audionom,
James White and The Blacks,
Barrington Levy,
Sällskapet,
Agent Orange,
New York Dolls,
The Leaves,
Soft Cell,
Excepter,
Grauzone,
Joensuu 1685,
48th St. Collective,
Nick Fraelich,
The Gladiators,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Modern Lovers,
Ultravox,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Soulsonic Force,
Junior Murvin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
David Bowie,
Big Daddy Kane,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Jawbox,
Soul Sonic Force,
Subhumans,
Newcleus,
Blancmange,
Von Mondo,
Average White Band,
Amon Düül II,
Bluetip,
Eden Ahbez,
This Heat,
The Five Americans,
Robert Görl,
Stetsasonic,
KRS-One,
Erasure,
Malaria!,
Boogie Down Productions,
Main Source,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rosa Yemen,
Laurel Aitken,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
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.