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 Gambia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mumbai.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the theremin 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 Silicon Teens to the crunk 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 Nils Olav. All the underground hits.
All Man Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The J.B.'s,
Amazonics,
A Certain Ratio,
Livin' Joy,
Rekid,
The Doors,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Johnny Clarke,
Stetsasonic,
Marc Almond,
Cybotron,
Fatback Band,
Mad Mike,
Erykah Badu,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Infiniti,
Wally Richardson,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Unwound,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ludus,
Rufus Thomas,
Fugazi,
Pierre Henry,
the Swans,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Chrome,
Ornette Coleman,
Ronnie Foster,
The Sisters of Mercy,
John Foxx,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Crispian St. Peters,
Dawn Penn,
Barrington Levy,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ronan,
The Victims,
Harry Pussy,
Maurizio,
The Count Five,
Black Sheep,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Sound,
the Slits,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Robert Hood,
Andrew Hill,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Doobie Brothers,
Scott Walker,
The Mojo Men,
The Searchers,
EPMD,
Oneida,
Radiopuhelimet,
Todd Terry,
Derrick May,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Black Bananas,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.