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 Uzbekistan and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Reagan Youth 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 Pharoah Sanders. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker + Sunn O))) 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Lydon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
E-Dancer,
Tommy Roe,
Nirvana,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sonny Sharrock,
Colin Newman,
Eddi Front,
Reuben Wilson,
The Toasters,
Accadde A,
Bobby Byrd,
Panda Bear,
Man Parrish,
Ossler,
The Victims,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jimmy McGriff,
DJ Sneak,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Moebius,
Henry Cow,
Intrusion,
The Real Kids,
Mr. Review,
Qualms,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sun City Girls,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scott Walker,
The Fuzztones,
MC5,
Blancmange,
The Knickerbockers,
The Happenings,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Grey Daturas,
Idris Muhammad,
Nils Olav,
Michelle Simonal,
Cluster,
Robert Wyatt,
Don Cherry,
Ten City,
Gabor Szabo,
Patti Smith,
Depeche Mode,
Unrelated Segments,
Delta 5,
Gichy Dan,
Mark Hollis,
Moby Grape,
Iggy Pop,
The Seeds,
Dark Day,
Sight & Sound,
Spandau Ballet,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pierre Henry,
Black Bananas,
Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond.
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.