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 Tunisia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Donald Fagen 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 Pylon to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Gang Gang Dance. All the underground hits.
All Morten Harket tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James White and The Blacks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Mantronix,
The Fire Engines,
Janne Schatter,
Bang On A Can,
Stetsasonic,
Big Daddy Kane,
Visage,
The Young Rascals,
Average White Band,
The Pretty Things,
Section 25,
Angry Samoans,
Parry Music,
Bill Near,
Blake Baxter,
The Gun Club,
Juan Atkins,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Qualms,
Dawn Penn,
La Düsseldorf,
The Index,
Arcadia,
Rekid,
The Tremeloes,
Soulsonic Force,
Jacob Miller,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pagans,
Matthew Bourne,
Infiniti,
Television Personalities,
Hot Snakes,
Siglo XX,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Crispy Ambulance,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
D'Angelo,
The Kinks,
Circle Jerks,
The Gap Band,
Dennis Brown,
Can,
Subhumans,
The Moody Blues,
The Count Five,
Porter Ricks,
The Raincoats,
Marvin Gaye,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Trojans,
Sound Behaviour,
The Searchers,
Byron Stingily,
Isaac Hayes,
Black Sheep,
Henry Cow,
David Bowie,
The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters.
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.