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 Ukraine and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Magma to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Buckinghams. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Gang of Four,
Lou Reed,
The Buckinghams,
Boz Scaggs,
Nas,
The Tremeloes,
Aural Exciters,
The Fortunes,
Arcadia,
June Days,
Marshall Jefferson,
Don Cherry,
Eli Mardock,
Arthur Verocai,
Marvin Gaye,
The American Breed,
The Durutti Column,
Das Ding,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Radiohead,
Yazoo,
Glenn Branca,
Average White Band,
Soul Sonic Force,
Leonard Cohen,
Surgeon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
the Bar-Kays,
Archie Shepp,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Count Five,
D'Angelo,
Siglo XX,
Radio Birdman,
The Mojo Men,
Tres Demented,
Boredoms,
Metal Thangz,
The Pop Group,
Barclay James Harvest,
X-101,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Althea and Donna,
Wire,
Livin' Joy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sällskapet,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Searchers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Joey Negro,
Aaron Thompson,
Zero Boys,
Lungfish,
Echospace,
Magazine,
Todd Terry,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.