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 Benin and from Lagos.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 clarinet 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 Isaac Hayes to the dance 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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Half Japanese,
Erykah Badu,
Cal Tjader,
Joey Negro,
The Selecter,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Goldenarms,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Offenders,
the Association,
Morten Harket,
David McCallum,
Camberwell Now,
Model 500,
Pagans,
Heaven 17,
Dorothy Ashby,
Suicide,
10cc,
Minnie Riperton,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Marshall Jefferson,
Janne Schatter,
Black Pus,
Monolake,
Zapp,
Vainqueur,
Sight & Sound,
Echospace,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Fad Gadget,
Andrew Hill,
June Days,
The Smoke,
Masters at Work,
The Stooges,
In Retrospect,
the Soft Cell,
Skriet,
Black Flag,
The Moleskins,
The Martian,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lebanon Hanover,
Charles Mingus,
Tomorrow,
A Certain Ratio,
Isaac Hayes,
The Buckinghams,
Ten City,
The Saints,
Marc Almond,
The Grass Roots,
The Black Dice,
Blake Baxter,
Kaleidoscope,
48th St. Collective,
Mr. Review,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.