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 Mexico and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the snare 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 Magazine to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Tubeway Army tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mission of Burma record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
The Star Department,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Wally Richardson,
The Toasters,
The Barracudas,
The Mummies,
The Fugs,
Yaz,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Offenders,
Inner City,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Negative Approach,
Tim Buckley,
Japan,
the Sonics,
Wolf Eyes,
Can,
Aloha Tigers,
Joyce Sims,
Todd Terry,
The Knickerbockers,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Liliput,
Scratch Acid,
Loose Ends,
Boogie Down Productions,
The American Breed,
Accadde A,
Kerrie Biddell,
Nirvana,
The Count Five,
Arthur Verocai,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gap Band,
Electric Prunes,
Amon Düül II,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Faust,
Lakeside,
Cal Tjader,
Moss Icon,
Ludus,
Gichy Dan,
Slick Rick,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Wake,
Thompson Twins,
The Moleskins,
Hashim,
Vainqueur,
Rod Modell,
The Mighty Diamonds,
ABBA,
Monks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach.
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.