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 East Timor and from Mexico City.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 theremin 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 The Vogues to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Newcleus. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Easy Going record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MDC,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Reagan Youth,
Wolf Eyes,
The Gun Club,
Thompson Twins,
One Last Wish,
Fatback Band,
Blancmange,
Monks,
Arcadia,
R.M.O.,
Lalann,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gichy Dan,
Bang On A Can,
kango's stein massive,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ossler,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Last Poets,
Mars,
Howard Jones,
Boz Scaggs,
Moss Icon,
Stiv Bators,
Ultravox,
LL Cool J,
Cecil Taylor,
Black Pus,
Glambeats Corp.,
Groovy Waters,
the Human League,
Excepter,
Sound Behaviour,
Camberwell Now,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kurtis Blow,
Kool Moe Dee,
Oblivians,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sex Pistols,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lalo Schifrin,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Seeds,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Josef K,
Robert Hood,
The Slackers,
A Certain Ratio,
Ice-T,
Freddie Wadling,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Quantec,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Suicide,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.