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 Guyana and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 organ 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 Black Bananas to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sister Nancy. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 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 '90s.
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 Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
Massinfluence,
John Holt,
Nirvana,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Smiths,
Slick Rick,
Mantronix,
Johnny Clarke,
Ludus,
Frankie Knuckles,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Henry Cow,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Nik Kershaw,
Bill Wells,
Stiv Bators,
Little Man,
Fad Gadget,
MC5,
Agent Orange,
Scratch Acid,
Negative Approach,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
CMW,
Pantytec,
Juan Atkins,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ituana,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rekid,
X-101,
Bauhaus,
L. Decosne,
Jeff Lynne,
UT,
Yellowson,
Lungfish,
Procol Harum,
Nico,
Royal Trux,
Vainqueur,
The Cure,
The Flesh Eaters,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Five Americans,
Ronnie Foster,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Trumans Water,
The Birthday Party,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
B.T. Express,
Desert Stars,
Rites of Spring,
Kayak,
Oneida,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Kinks,
Niagra,
Lucky Dragons,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.