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 London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Michael McDonald 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 The Slackers to the techno 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 Selecter. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minnie Riperton,
Gil Scott Heron,
Das Ding,
Radiohead,
Hardrive,
The Invisible,
Marshall Jefferson,
Siglo XX,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Patti Smith,
The Moleskins,
Gabor Szabo,
Q and Not U,
Jerry Gold Smith,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Suburban Knight,
Davy DMX,
David Bowie,
Mary Jane Girls,
Letta Mbulu,
Ornette Coleman,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bill Near,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ken Boothe,
The Count Five,
Newcleus,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
B.T. Express,
Skaos,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Dave Gahan,
Eden Ahbez,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Robert Görl,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Half Japanese,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bronski Beat,
Al Stewart,
Bobby Sherman,
Aural Exciters,
Procol Harum,
Brothers Johnson,
The Evens,
Althea and Donna,
Bauhaus,
Man Parrish,
Scott Walker,
Terry Callier,
The Smoke,
Simply Red,
Adolescents,
Lalann,
Sun Ra,
Anthony Braxton,
Second Layer,
Junior Murvin,
Glambeats Corp.,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.