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 Azerbaijan and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Robert Palmer 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 Jacques Brel to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Theoretical Girls. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ajijia Myrayebe 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Residents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
The Evens,
Todd Rundgren,
Pierre Henry,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Divine Comedy,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Star Department,
Prince Buster,
The Vogues,
The Dead C,
Subhumans,
Black Sheep,
Minor Threat,
8 Eyed Spy,
Q65,
Hot Snakes,
Yaz,
The Wake,
The Black Dice,
Vainqueur,
Clear Light,
Popol Vuh,
Can,
Brothers Johnson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scott Walker,
Sun Ra,
the Human League,
Agent Orange,
Pantytec,
David Bowie,
Sun City Girls,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Gap Band,
Bob Dylan,
The Velvet Underground,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Birthday Party,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lightning Bolt,
Quadrant,
Robert Hood,
Morten Harket,
Second Layer,
the Soft Cell,
Funky Four + One,
Sällskapet,
Khruangbin,
Neil Young,
The Busters,
Average White Band,
Porter Ricks,
These Immortal Souls,
Schoolly D,
In Retrospect,
LL Cool J,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Parry Music,
Bobby Womack,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.