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 Nepal and from London.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Philadelphia.
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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Ludus to the jazz 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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Gabor Szabo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Royal Trux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
PIL,
Skriet,
Letta Mbulu,
Leonard Cohen,
Bobby Sherman,
The Misunderstood,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Duran Duran,
Main Source,
Thee Headcoats,
Sun City Girls,
The Move,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Cure,
In Retrospect,
Erykah Badu,
Eli Mardock,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Cluster,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Tres Demented,
Glenn Branca,
Whodini,
Pierre Henry,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Supertramp,
Black Bananas,
The Zeros,
the Soft Cell,
Hasil Adkins,
Darondo,
Ice-T,
Flipper,
Bauhaus,
Yusef Lateef,
Mandrill,
kango's stein massive,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Janne Schatter,
The Fuzztones,
Don Cherry,
Joy Division,
Fad Gadget,
Curtis Mayfield,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Grauzone,
Cameo,
Lee Hazlewood,
Traffic Nightmare,
Fat Boys,
One Last Wish,
Bush Tetras,
Ten City,
Cybotron,
The Moody Blues,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Monks,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.