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 Paraguay and from Woodstock.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Smoke to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet 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 linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Goldenarms,
Skriet,
Sun City Girls,
The Techniques,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Archie Shepp,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Robert Görl,
Gang Starr,
Accadde A,
Marine Girls,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Drive Like Jehu,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Electric Prunes,
Man Eating Sloth,
Marvin Gaye,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rod Modell,
Gang Green,
Ludus,
Nas,
Gil Scott Heron,
PIL,
Ultravox,
Joensuu 1685,
John Holt,
The Offenders,
Roxette,
Loose Ends,
The Index,
The Smoke,
Drexciya,
The Blues Magoos,
Yazoo,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Simply Red,
Sun Ra,
Altered Images,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Joyce Sims,
The Knickerbockers,
Iggy Pop,
The Vogues,
Josef K,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Cheater Slicks,
Suicide,
Theoretical Girls,
Ohio Players,
The Blackbyrds,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Radiohead,
The Searchers,
Curtis Mayfield,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Thompson Twins,
Blossom Toes,
Minny Pops,
Slick Rick,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.