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 Jamaica and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 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 Qualms to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ 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,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
the Bar-Kays,
Rhythm & Sound,
Fugazi,
Rakim,
Loose Ends,
Jimmy McGriff,
Subhumans,
Model 500,
Gabor Szabo,
China Crisis,
OOIOO,
Harpers Bizarre,
X-101,
Eric Dolphy,
Funkadelic,
David McCallum,
The Divine Comedy,
Nico,
Jacques Brel,
The Invisible,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Jawbox,
CMW,
These Immortal Souls,
Soft Machine,
Pagans,
Basic Channel,
Bill Wells,
Joensuu 1685,
Lyres,
Arab on Radar,
The Searchers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Smoke,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Offenders,
The Moody Blues,
Grauzone,
Cheater Slicks,
Altered Images,
Audionom,
Mad Mike,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Skatalites,
The American Breed,
The Zeros,
Gang Starr,
Stockholm Monsters,
Eden Ahbez,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Star Department,
Y Pants,
Ronnie Foster,
PIL,
Amon Düül II,
Siglo XX,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola.
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.