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 Poland and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar 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 Lebanon Hanover to the grime 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 The Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
Agitation Free,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Loose Ends,
The Fugs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sound Behaviour,
48th St. Collective,
Nik Kershaw,
June Days,
LL Cool J,
The Dead C,
John Foxx,
Oblivians,
Ken Boothe,
KRS-One,
Funkadelic,
Amon Düül II,
Zero Boys,
Aswad,
The Dirtbombs,
Second Layer,
Wire,
Grandmaster Flash,
Hashim,
The Neon Judgement,
Mission of Burma,
Little Man,
Freddie Wadling,
Buzzcocks,
Yaz,
A Certain Ratio,
Bootsy Collins,
Jerry's Kids,
Derrick Morgan,
Crime,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Wasted Youth,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Audionom,
Moss Icon,
Pulsallama,
Agent Orange,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Alice Coltrane,
Connie Case,
Blancmange,
Ornette Coleman,
The Walker Brothers,
Stetsasonic,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Five Americans,
Nick Fraelich,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Echospace,
Flash Fearless,
Ultra Naté,
Hardrive,
Scan 7,
Gang Starr,
Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare.
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.