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 Senegal and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Joey Negro to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dawn Penn 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
The Remains,
ABC,
David McCallum,
The Beau Brummels,
Ronan,
Kaleidoscope,
Von Mondo,
Tomorrow,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Au Pairs,
Alphaville,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Echospace,
Rufus Thomas,
Jeff Lynne,
Roxy Music,
Unrelated Segments,
Rites of Spring,
The Fall,
Sonic Youth,
Easy Going,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Grass Roots,
Leonard Cohen,
Avey Tare,
The Stooges,
Maurizio,
Qualms,
Jacques Brel,
a-ha,
Dark Day,
Funkadelic,
DJ Sneak,
Tommy Roe,
Inner City,
Erasure,
Mandrill,
Cybotron,
Audionom,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Gories,
Bluetip,
Arcadia,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
X-101,
Bob Dylan,
Tears for Fears,
The Barracudas,
Gichy Dan,
the Association,
Scratch Acid,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Real Kids,
Black Pus,
The Count Five,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.