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 Sweden and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 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 Von Mondo to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lonnie Liston Smith 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
K-Klass,
Skaos,
Scan 7,
Bootsy Collins,
Tommy Roe,
Visage,
Arcadia,
Harpers Bizarre,
Camberwell Now,
Slave,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Skarface,
Robert Görl,
The Motions,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Tremeloes,
Tropical Tobacco,
Fear,
Audionom,
Rakim,
Absolute Body Control,
Mr. Review,
Crispy Ambulance,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Modern Lovers,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Glambeats Corp.,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lower 48,
L. Decosne,
Marvin Gaye,
The Star Department,
Public Enemy,
The Move,
Joensuu 1685,
Nas,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Detroit Cobras,
Monks,
Crash Course in Science,
The Searchers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Swans,
Zero Boys,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Slick Rick,
Cheater Slicks,
Sight & Sound,
The Fire Engines,
Average White Band,
Tomorrow,
Peter and Kerry,
Shoche,
Morten Harket,
Thompson Twins,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Spandau Ballet,
Eric Copeland,
Excepter,
the Swans,
the Association,
Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light.
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.