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 Serbia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 rhodes 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 Colin Newman to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Popol Vuh record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Knickerbockers,
Rapeman,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Young Marble Giants,
Swell Maps,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Danielle Patucci,
Sun City Girls,
Fear,
Sparks,
F. McDonald,
the Slits,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Don Cherry,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sight & Sound,
Sällskapet,
Eddi Front,
Bad Manners,
Soul II Soul,
Sound Behaviour,
Bobby Byrd,
Panda Bear,
Wasted Youth,
Josef K,
La Düsseldorf,
Unwound,
Sexual Harrassment,
New York Dolls,
Radio Birdman,
Soft Cell,
Pole,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
PIL,
Procol Harum,
Monks,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Busters,
Fatback Band,
Suburban Knight,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
June of 44,
Blossom Toes,
Blancmange,
Marc Almond,
Pulsallama,
Tubeway Army,
Bush Tetras,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Fire Engines,
Cameo,
Television Personalities,
Adolescents,
Erasure,
Joe Smooth,
Lower 48,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Blackbyrds,
The Alarm Clocks,
Buzzcocks,
The Human League, The Human League, The Human League, The Human League.
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.