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 Tajikistan and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 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 Association to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Saccharine Trust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Eli Mardock,
Bad Manners,
Slave,
Patti Smith,
The Cure,
The Durutti Column,
Duran Duran,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Vainqueur,
Hardrive,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Marine Girls,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lou Reed,
The Human League,
La Düsseldorf,
Steve Hackett,
Cameo,
New Age Steppers,
the Association,
Lungfish,
Maleditus Sound,
Tres Demented,
Mo-Dettes,
the Slits,
Aswad,
Stereo Dub,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Happenings,
Animal Collective,
Gichy Dan,
Alphaville,
Flamin' Groovies,
Liliput,
Roxy Music,
Reuben Wilson,
Glambeats Corp.,
Young Marble Giants,
Sly & The Family Stone,
World's Most,
Bootsy Collins,
Swell Maps,
Brick,
The Five Americans,
Laurel Aitken,
Big Daddy Kane,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Soft Cell,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Main Source,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Grauzone,
Pagans,
Mr. Review,
Thompson Twins,
Interpol,
Blancmange,
Michelle Simonal,
Idris Muhammad,
Pole,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.