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 Armenia and from Portland.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro 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 Boz Scaggs to the punk 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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marshall Jefferson 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 mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mission of Burma,
Minnie Riperton,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ultra Naté,
Toni Rubio,
UT,
Ludus,
Kool Moe Dee,
Panda Bear,
Lower 48,
The American Breed,
The Real Kids,
Swans,
Absolute Body Control,
Urselle,
The Residents,
Jacques Brel,
Gang Green,
Lou Reed,
Liliput,
Skriet,
Scan 7,
Simply Red,
Essential Logic,
The Cramps,
Peter & Gordon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bobby Womack,
Das Ding,
The Motions,
the Normal,
Andrew Hill,
Sixth Finger,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gabor Szabo,
Rekid,
MC5,
The Fortunes,
The Offenders,
This Heat,
Circle Jerks,
Negative Approach,
Godley & Creme,
Kaleidoscope,
The Cowsills,
OOIOO,
F. McDonald,
Niagra,
Fear,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Cure,
Quando Quango,
The Vogues,
the Soft Cell,
Jeru the Damaja,
Moebius,
The Smiths,
Duran Duran,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.