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 Andorra and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and London.
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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Peter and Kerry to the electroclash 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 The Busters. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Altered Images record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moss Icon,
Zero Boys,
the Bar-Kays,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Shuggie Otis,
Sight & Sound,
Soul II Soul,
Scion,
The Moleskins,
Brick,
Peter and Kerry,
Gerry Rafferty,
Yaz,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gichy Dan,
Tomorrow,
Jandek,
Marcia Griffiths,
Patti Smith,
Arab on Radar,
Ultimate Spinach,
Tommy Roe,
The Leaves,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Iggy Pop,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Massinfluence,
Josef K,
The Pretty Things,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The United States of America,
Kerri Chandler,
The Grass Roots,
The Shadows of Knight,
Von Mondo,
Siglo XX,
Parry Music,
Dual Sessions,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Funkadelic,
The Victims,
Jerry's Kids,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Metal Thangz,
the Association,
Bobby Womack,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Roy Ayers,
Flash Fearless,
Franke,
Banda Bassotti,
Basic Channel,
Don Cherry,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ice-T,
Mr. Review,
Black Pus,
Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes.
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.