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 Netherlands and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Leonard Cohen to the grime 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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Index 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool G Rap & DJ Polo 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?
Fad Gadget,
Au Pairs,
ABC,
John Foxx,
KRS-One,
Massinfluence,
Pet Shop Boys,
Hoover,
the Soft Cell,
Curtis Mayfield,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Kenny Larkin,
The Knickerbockers,
Neil Young,
Scientists,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Agitation Free,
Isaac Hayes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Leaves,
Roger Hodgson,
Bluetip,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Roy Ayers,
Soulsonic Force,
Joe Finger,
Tubeway Army,
Sixth Finger,
Kayak,
Second Layer,
Mo-Dettes,
Minny Pops,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Con Funk Shun,
Boz Scaggs,
Dawn Penn,
The Searchers,
Judy Mowatt,
CMW,
One Last Wish,
Rod Modell,
Yellowson,
Aswad,
Drive Like Jehu,
Junior Murvin,
Newcleus,
The Offenders,
Visage,
John Lydon,
Donny Hathaway,
Procol Harum,
The Cowsills,
Dual Sessions,
Sight & Sound,
Unwound,
Bronski Beat,
The Misunderstood,
Nation of Ulysses,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band.
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.