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 Ecuador and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Woodstock.
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 linndrum 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 the Normal 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 The Cramps. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blake Baxter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pet Shop Boys,
Quantec,
Lakeside,
Fad Gadget,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Move,
Quando Quango,
Funky Four + One,
Vladislav Delay,
Chrome,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Terry Callier,
Lalo Schifrin,
Delta 5,
Kaleidoscope,
Tears for Fears,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Television,
The Count Five,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Symarip,
Terrestrial Tones,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lee Hazlewood,
Gong,
Reuben Wilson,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ituana,
Piero Umiliani,
Todd Terry,
Altered Images,
The American Breed,
Scratch Acid,
Scott Walker,
Black Moon,
Charles Mingus,
Bang On A Can,
Toni Rubio,
Tomorrow,
London Community Gospel Choir,
the Swans,
Porter Ricks,
The Slits,
Graham Central Station,
T.S.O.L.,
Lightning Bolt,
Silicon Teens,
Ken Boothe,
Flipper,
Youth Brigade,
Maleditus Sound,
Cybotron,
Los Fastidios,
X-102,
DJ Style,
Todd Rundgren,
Boredoms,
Man Parrish,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gregory Isaacs,
Hot Snakes,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.