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 Malta and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Glasgow.
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 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 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 the Normal to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All The Kinks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Art Ensemble Of Chicago record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
Unwound,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Marvin Gaye,
Todd Rundgren,
Outsiders,
Crooked Eye,
The Raincoats,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lou Christie,
The Red Krayola,
Roger Hodgson,
Heaven 17,
Soft Machine,
Robert Görl,
Brass Construction,
Talk Talk,
The Dead C,
kango's stein massive,
La Düsseldorf,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mark Hollis,
Infiniti,
Donny Hathaway,
Oneida,
Black Pus,
Soul II Soul,
Lakeside,
Amazonics,
World's Most,
Byron Stingily,
Warren Ellis,
Cal Tjader,
Pantytec,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Slick Rick,
David Axelrod,
Mantronix,
John Coltrane,
Underground Resistance,
The Move,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Dave Gahan,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
ABC,
X-102,
Rotary Connection,
The Modern Lovers,
Jeff Lynne,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lindisfarne,
Faraquet,
The Durutti Column,
The Leaves,
Carl Craig,
Babytalk,
UT,
AZ, AZ, AZ, AZ.
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.