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 Iraq and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Drexciya to the disco 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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Flesh Eaters,
Cybotron,
The Busters,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Charles Mingus,
Moebius,
Fad Gadget,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Minnie Riperton,
Alton Ellis,
Sexual Harrassment,
Jacob Miller,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Boz Scaggs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Urselle,
The Young Rascals,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Brothers Johnson,
Drive Like Jehu,
AZ,
Pagans,
Lower 48,
Marine Girls,
The Motions,
Silicon Teens,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rhythm & Sound,
Television Personalities,
Flash Fearless,
Kurtis Blow,
Yaz,
Lucky Dragons,
Organ,
Traffic Nightmare,
Blake Baxter,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Minutemen,
One Last Wish,
Ronnie Foster,
Tears for Fears,
Khruangbin,
Zero Boys,
a-ha,
Absolute Body Control,
Janne Schatter,
Mark Hollis,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Standells,
Anthony Braxton,
The Alarm Clocks,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Model 500,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Mo-Dettes,
Rapeman,
Pantytec,
Young Marble Giants,
Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols.
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.