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 Belize and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 oboe 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 The Mighty Diamonds to the electroclash 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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All The Selecter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smoke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tommy Roe,
Radio Birdman,
Q65,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Searchers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
MDC,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Remains,
The Gun Club,
Gastr Del Sol,
Young Marble Giants,
Aloha Tigers,
Reagan Youth,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Howard Jones,
The Names,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dark Day,
Peter and Kerry,
The Cure,
Tom Boy,
Aswad,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Black Flag,
PIL,
The Monks,
Nirvana,
Pulsallama,
Flash Fearless,
Fatback Band,
John Lydon,
Index,
Barry Ungar,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Matthew Halsall,
Lower 48,
Porter Ricks,
Tears for Fears,
Fela Kuti,
Loose Ends,
Mark Hollis,
The Slackers,
Derrick Morgan,
The Buckinghams,
Minutemen,
Al Stewart,
Ohio Players,
cv313,
Ronnie Foster,
Magma,
Goldenarms,
Magazine,
Shoche,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
T. Rex,
U.S. Maple,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Soul Sonic Force,
June of 44,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.