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 Ukraine and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dawn Penn record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minny Pops record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Peter & Gordon,
Scratch Acid,
Rakim,
UT,
Chris & Cosey,
John Cale,
Scion,
Soft Cell,
Metal Thangz,
Al Stewart,
Scan 7,
The New Christs,
Glenn Branca,
Sam Rivers,
The Count Five,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Seeds,
Quantec,
The Smoke,
The Associates,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Chrome,
Girls At Our Best!,
Marcia Griffiths,
Minnie Riperton,
Slave,
Soft Machine,
A Certain Ratio,
Idris Muhammad,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Iggy Pop,
Brass Construction,
EPMD,
Depeche Mode,
Matthew Bourne,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Robert Hood,
the Normal,
Lalo Schifrin,
David Axelrod,
Warsaw,
The Invisible,
Fela Kuti,
Piero Umiliani,
Unwound,
Moby Grape,
The Skatalites,
Parry Music,
Letta Mbulu,
This Heat,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Funkadelic,
Circle Jerks,
Cameo,
Todd Terry,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
KRS-One,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.