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 Yemen and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Joe Finger to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Doobie Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Fluxion,
Young Marble Giants,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Eli Mardock,
Bad Manners,
Au Pairs,
Henry Cow,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Marcia Griffiths,
Adolescents,
Tres Demented,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Human League,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Young Rascals,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
KRS-One,
Lightning Bolt,
Susan Cadogan,
The Offenders,
The Slits,
Bang On A Can,
Joe Finger,
The Sonics,
Unwound,
New Age Steppers,
Pharoah Sanders,
48th St. Collective,
Gang Green,
Tears for Fears,
Ultimate Spinach,
Johnny Clarke,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Second Layer,
Pere Ubu,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Boogie Down Productions,
Essential Logic,
The Count Five,
Jerry's Kids,
Nico,
Idris Muhammad,
The Raincoats,
Echospace,
Youth Brigade,
The Birthday Party,
Chris & Cosey,
Hardrive,
Tommy Roe,
Joey Negro,
The Saints,
The Dead C,
Nirvana,
Urselle,
The Monks,
The Pop Group,
Roy Ayers,
Freddie Wadling,
Silicon Teens,
Curtis Mayfield,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.