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 Cape Verde and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Anakelly to the electroclash 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 Bill Near. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Hutcherson 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?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Don Cherry,
Rotary Connection,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lungfish,
Pylon,
Television,
Can,
Los Fastidios,
Unwound,
The Move,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Electric Prunes,
Grauzone,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Quando Quango,
Nirvana,
The Techniques,
Fela Kuti,
B.T. Express,
Idris Muhammad,
H. Thieme,
The Knickerbockers,
Joyce Sims,
Duran Duran,
Aaron Thompson,
Young Marble Giants,
Guru Guru,
Marcia Griffiths,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
James White and The Blacks,
Hoover,
One Last Wish,
Arcadia,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Gories,
the Slits,
Boogie Down Productions,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Aloha Tigers,
Davy DMX,
The Music Machine,
Hashim,
The J.B.'s,
Bobby Byrd,
Patti Smith,
Sun City Girls,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Parry Music,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Banda Bassotti,
Peter & Gordon,
Von Mondo,
Desert Stars,
the Association,
Fat Boys,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.