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 Kiribati and from Halifax.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Nas to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Mo-Dettes. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall 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 theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Bananas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Human League,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Siglo XX,
Toni Rubio,
Vainqueur,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Joe Smooth,
Cheater Slicks,
Soul II Soul,
The Vogues,
Main Source,
Von Mondo,
Sexual Harrassment,
Yusef Lateef,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Essential Logic,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kool Moe Dee,
Morten Harket,
Kas Product,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
John Holt,
The American Breed,
The Wake,
Lindisfarne,
Rekid,
Johnny Osbourne,
Funkadelic,
The Misunderstood,
Agitation Free,
Delta 5,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gastr Del Sol,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
A Flock of Seagulls,
the Sonics,
Chris Corsano,
Gil Scott Heron,
Swans,
The Invisible,
Chris & Cosey,
Donald Byrd,
Roxette,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Charles Mingus,
Lou Reed,
Can,
Crooked Eye,
The Cramps,
David Axelrod,
Duran Duran,
Electric Prunes,
Quando Quango,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Joy Division,
Kerrie Biddell,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants.
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.