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 France and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Stereo Dub to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sex Pistols 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Curtis Mayfield,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Inner City,
Alton Ellis,
Talk Talk,
The Mojo Men,
The Searchers,
E-Dancer,
Clear Light,
The Slits,
Q and Not U,
The Black Dice,
China Crisis,
Max Romeo,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Eric Copeland,
Amazonics,
This Heat,
The Skatalites,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Marine Girls,
Idris Muhammad,
Loose Ends,
Alice Coltrane,
the Bar-Kays,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Misunderstood,
Con Funk Shun,
Sarah Menescal,
The Divine Comedy,
The Invisible,
Jimmy McGriff,
Chris & Cosey,
Sound Behaviour,
Nico,
EPMD,
Cal Tjader,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Modern Lovers,
JFA,
The Motions,
Crispy Ambulance,
David Bowie,
Quadrant,
World's Most,
The Fire Engines,
Gong,
Cybotron,
Rapeman,
Organ,
The Stooges,
Harry Pussy,
Barrington Levy,
Boredoms,
Glenn Branca,
Stereo Dub,
The Zeros,
Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust.
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.