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 Nigeria and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Flash Fearless to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 June of 44. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ponytail 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Buzzcocks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
UT,
Brick,
One Last Wish,
Curtis Mayfield,
Smog,
EPMD,
Icehouse,
Tomorrow,
Porter Ricks,
8 Eyed Spy,
Tears for Fears,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Gun Club,
Nils Olav,
Vainqueur,
Supertramp,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mo-Dettes,
Camberwell Now,
Barrington Levy,
The Fall,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Soulsonic Force,
The Red Krayola,
Pylon,
Aswad,
Malaria!,
Mandrill,
DJ Sneak,
Youth Brigade,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Donny Hathaway,
Delta 5,
Eve St. Jones,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Dark Day,
Crime,
Black Moon,
Radiohead,
Minnie Riperton,
Little Man,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
New Order,
The Real Kids,
Black Pus,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Grauzone,
Gong,
The Flesh Eaters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sarah Menescal,
John Coltrane,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nico,
The Move,
Marine Girls,
Josef K,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Last Poets,
Pagans, Pagans, Pagans, Pagans.
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.