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 Antigua and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Beijing.
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 theremin 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 Niagra to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Maurizio,
Can,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bauhaus,
Moby Grape,
Wasted Youth,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Yellowson,
Joe Smooth,
Bill Near,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lebanon Hanover,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Henry Cow,
Gregory Isaacs,
DNA,
Royal Trux,
Roxy Music,
Eden Ahbez,
Hasil Adkins,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ohio Players,
Eurythmics,
A Certain Ratio,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Marvin Gaye,
Davy DMX,
Deepchord,
Camouflage,
Babytalk,
EPMD,
Bob Dylan,
Massinfluence,
Whodini,
Underground Resistance,
The Fortunes,
Minnie Riperton,
The Cowsills,
Skarface,
Deadbeat,
Guru Guru,
Newcleus,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Clear Light,
Average White Band,
The Human League,
Derrick Morgan,
Black Flag,
Con Funk Shun,
The Gladiators,
Neil Young,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gerry Rafferty,
Charles Mingus,
Von Mondo,
Kevin Saunderson,
Man Eating Sloth,
Nick Fraelich,
Skaos, Skaos, Skaos, Skaos.
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.