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 Dominica and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 808 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 Marvin Gaye to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All The New Christs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans 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 a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ten City,
Japan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Standells,
Eli Mardock,
Bobby Womack,
Television Personalities,
Marmalade,
Derrick May,
Bizarre Inc.,
Soul II Soul,
The Red Krayola,
48th St. Collective,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Blackbyrds,
Terrestrial Tones,
Derrick Morgan,
Malaria!,
Qualms,
Delon & Dalcan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Monolake,
Basic Channel,
Thompson Twins,
ABBA,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Absolute Body Control,
Aloha Tigers,
Nico,
Roger Hodgson,
Boogie Down Productions,
D'Angelo,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Quantec,
Thee Headcoats,
Spoonie Gee,
The Kinks,
Hashim,
Gil Scott Heron,
Stereo Dub,
ABC,
Scan 7,
Eden Ahbez,
Althea and Donna,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
June of 44,
Sam Rivers,
Q65,
Toni Rubio,
Sun Ra,
Mantronix,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Trojans,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bronski Beat,
Cameo,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Josef K, Josef K, Josef K, Josef K.
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.