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 Madagascar and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 clarinet 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 Easy Going to the electroclash 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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Ten City,
Johnny Clarke,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Gun Club,
Gong,
Livin' Joy,
The Blues Magoos,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Icehouse,
Marc Almond,
Swans,
The Star Department,
The Velvet Underground,
Tubeway Army,
The United States of America,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
DJ Sneak,
Roxette,
Goldenarms,
Trumans Water,
Crispian St. Peters,
Don Cherry,
The Neon Judgement,
Mantronix,
Moss Icon,
MC5,
10cc,
Lou Christie,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Cheater Slicks,
Barbara Tucker,
Aswad,
Angry Samoans,
Todd Terry,
Robert Görl,
Juan Atkins,
The Motions,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Tommy Roe,
Basic Channel,
Quando Quango,
Steve Hackett,
Barclay James Harvest,
MDC,
Susan Cadogan,
The Fortunes,
Anthony Braxton,
Lindisfarne,
Crime,
Matthew Bourne,
Henry Cow,
Amon Düül,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Fuzztones,
Morten Harket,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Gladiators,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Beau Brummels,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.