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 Ivory Coast and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Warren Ellis 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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Names,
Aaron Thompson,
X-101,
Kerri Chandler,
Massinfluence,
Can,
Index,
DJ Style,
Severed Heads,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Golliwogs,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Wasted Youth,
Sandy B,
Clear Light,
Albert Ayler,
Das Ding,
The Gun Club,
Deakin,
Crash Course in Science,
D'Angelo,
Kool Moe Dee,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Tomorrow,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pagans,
Skarface,
The United States of America,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Residents,
Amon Düül,
Tom Boy,
Bill Wells,
a-ha,
Television Personalities,
ABC,
Public Image Ltd.,
Mark Hollis,
Unrelated Segments,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Theoretical Girls,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Darondo,
Delta 5,
New Order,
Bobby Byrd,
The Barracudas,
Masters at Work,
Juan Atkins,
Mars,
Simply Red,
Drive Like Jehu,
Roy Ayers,
Ohio Players,
Jerry's Kids,
Avey Tare,
LL Cool J,
Harmonia,
Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn.
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.