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 Palau and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 Bremen and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 snare 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 Carl Craig to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Gories,
Malaria!,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Hashim,
Crooked Eye,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Pere Ubu,
Groovy Waters,
Colin Newman,
Talk Talk,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bobby Sherman,
Pantytec,
Ituana,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Associates,
Quantec,
Electric Prunes,
Buzzcocks,
The Last Poets,
Q65,
Heaven 17,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Vogues,
Boogie Down Productions,
Althea and Donna,
Liliput,
Silicon Teens,
Au Pairs,
Severed Heads,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dorothy Ashby,
Los Fastidios,
The Martian,
Lucky Dragons,
The Monochrome Set,
The Modern Lovers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Theoretical Girls,
Scrapy,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Leonard Cohen,
Gang Starr,
10cc,
The Gladiators,
Minny Pops,
Peter & Gordon,
Marc Almond,
The Wake,
FM Einheit,
The Grass Roots,
Ash Ra Tempel,
New Age Steppers,
Bobby Byrd,
Ultravox,
Ossler,
John Coltrane,
Gerry Rafferty,
Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike.
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.