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 Cyprus and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 David Bowie 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 Pierre Henry to the rock 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 Monks. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Hoover,
Joey Negro,
X-101,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Marmalade,
Von Mondo,
Fela Kuti,
the Sonics,
Interpol,
Yusef Lateef,
The Toasters,
MC5,
The Neon Judgement,
Soul Sonic Force,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Black Flag,
The Electric Prunes,
Rakim,
The Vogues,
The Music Machine,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gabor Szabo,
Symarip,
Michelle Simonal,
Negative Approach,
Max Romeo,
Bauhaus,
Blossom Toes,
The Dirtbombs,
Urselle,
Minor Threat,
Warsaw,
Lalann,
Metal Thangz,
Goldenarms,
Hasil Adkins,
The Leaves,
kango's stein massive,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
John Lydon,
Motorama,
Massinfluence,
Godley & Creme,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Trumans Water,
Swell Maps,
Jesper Dahlback,
Barclay James Harvest,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Jerry's Kids,
The Standells,
Ice-T,
John Cale,
Bootsy Collins,
Albert Ayler,
Freddie Wadling,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
a-ha,
Faust,
Khruangbin,
Colin Newman,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.