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 Iceland and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 guitar 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 Josef K to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Walker Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Trojans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blancmange,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Derrick Morgan,
Minnie Riperton,
Donny Hathaway,
Ronnie Foster,
Neil Young,
Electric Prunes,
Althea and Donna,
Unrelated Segments,
FM Einheit,
Clear Light,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eurythmics,
Schoolly D,
Pet Shop Boys,
Subhumans,
Basic Channel,
Cymande,
Avey Tare,
DJ Style,
Al Stewart,
David McCallum,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Dave Clark Five,
U.S. Maple,
Bad Manners,
Pierre Henry,
kango's stein massive,
Boredoms,
Wasted Youth,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rites of Spring,
Faust,
The Tremeloes,
Saccharine Trust,
Marine Girls,
Spandau Ballet,
Lungfish,
Arab on Radar,
Television,
MC5,
The Vogues,
Symarip,
Grauzone,
Jeff Lynne,
Slick Rick,
Warren Ellis,
F. McDonald,
The Evens,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Blake Baxter,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Simply Red,
The J.B.'s,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Neon Judgement,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Vladislav Delay,
Cecil Taylor,
Franke,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.