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 Mongolia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 oboe 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 Radiohead to the grime 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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gun Club record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
R.M.O.,
The Searchers,
Warren Ellis,
Trumans Water,
Tears for Fears,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rotary Connection,
Fat Boys,
David Axelrod,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Moody Blues,
Scientists,
Fear,
Bobby Sherman,
The Durutti Column,
Stetsasonic,
Q and Not U,
Bush Tetras,
Fort Wilson Riot,
China Crisis,
Banda Bassotti,
Lakeside,
Sun Ra,
the Swans,
Pet Shop Boys,
Saccharine Trust,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Symarip,
Aaron Thompson,
Aural Exciters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camouflage,
New Order,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Monochrome Set,
Ludus,
Girls At Our Best!,
Section 25,
Buzzcocks,
Cybotron,
Organ,
Boz Scaggs,
The Music Machine,
Mars,
Grey Daturas,
Isaac Hayes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Joy Division,
Gang Green,
John Lydon,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Peter & Gordon,
John Holt,
Malaria!,
DJ Style,
This Heat,
Pantytec,
Althea and Donna,
Kerrie Biddell,
Junior Murvin,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.