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 Burundi and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Stockholm.
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 sitar 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 Freddie Wadling to the jazz 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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Don Cherry 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 jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marc Almond,
Underground Resistance,
Youth Brigade,
Massinfluence,
La Düsseldorf,
Average White Band,
CMW,
Faraquet,
John Holt,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Rod Modell,
Alison Limerick,
Quando Quango,
Iggy Pop,
Ten City,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Godley & Creme,
Clear Light,
X-Ray Spex,
Tres Demented,
Blossom Toes,
Fad Gadget,
Donald Byrd,
Lyres,
Q and Not U,
Hoover,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Robert Hood,
Kas Product,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Glambeats Corp.,
Barclay James Harvest,
Stereo Dub,
Josef K,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Electric Prunes,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Fall,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Buckinghams,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Khruangbin,
The Slackers,
OOIOO,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Marine Girls,
Charles Mingus,
Sight & Sound,
kango's stein massive,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bush Tetras,
The Human League,
Half Japanese,
Cybotron,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Terry Callier,
Archie Shepp,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Pantytec,
Traffic Nightmare,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Motions,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis.
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.