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 Poland and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Lalann to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Gang Gang Dance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Young Rascals,
Ralphi Rosario,
Gastr Del Sol,
the Bar-Kays,
Johnny Clarke,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Saints,
One Last Wish,
Gil Scott Heron,
Pylon,
The Monks,
Piero Umiliani,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Spoonie Gee,
Banda Bassotti,
Quadrant,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Mad Mike,
Steve Hackett,
Lou Christie,
New York Dolls,
Wire,
Chrome,
Ituana,
The Gladiators,
Dual Sessions,
Connie Case,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Fire Engines,
Excepter,
Nils Olav,
The Toasters,
the Fania All-Stars,
Kerrie Biddell,
Minor Threat,
Bobby Byrd,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ronnie Foster,
Matthew Halsall,
Echospace,
Alphaville,
Barbara Tucker,
The Litter,
The Remains,
Gabor Szabo,
The Real Kids,
K-Klass,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Severed Heads,
Dark Day,
Young Marble Giants,
Depeche Mode,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ken Boothe,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Standells,
The Moody Blues,
the Association,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
China Crisis,
Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth.
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.