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 Luxembourg and from Delhi.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Toronto.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Smiths to the rock 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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Iggy Pop record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Big Daddy Kane,
Deakin,
Jacob Miller,
Boogie Down Productions,
Black Flag,
Aloha Tigers,
Crooked Eye,
Aaron Thompson,
The Barracudas,
Nirvana,
Aswad,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Marvin Gaye,
China Crisis,
Cluster,
These Immortal Souls,
New York Dolls,
Albert Ayler,
Sarah Menescal,
Gastr Del Sol,
Accadde A,
This Heat,
Todd Terry,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Eli Mardock,
Intrusion,
Matthew Bourne,
T.S.O.L.,
Fela Kuti,
Jerry's Kids,
the Sonics,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bobby Byrd,
Nation of Ulysses,
Nas,
Barbara Tucker,
Crispian St. Peters,
Desert Stars,
The Move,
John Holt,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Susan Cadogan,
Godley & Creme,
Eden Ahbez,
Lightning Bolt,
The Offenders,
The Skatalites,
Absolute Body Control,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sun City Girls,
Yusef Lateef,
Eve St. Jones,
Carl Craig,
Fat Boys,
Unrelated Segments,
The Walker Brothers,
Wings,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
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.