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 Libya and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Yazoo 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 Gang Gang Dance. All the underground hits.
All L. Decosne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Excepter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drexciya,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Victims,
Glenn Branca,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Moebius,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Sonics,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Slave,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bobby Womack,
The United States of America,
The Electric Prunes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ice-T,
Soul II Soul,
La Düsseldorf,
The Blues Magoos,
Blancmange,
Roy Ayers,
Sex Pistols,
The Happenings,
Bootsy Collins,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Television Personalities,
Scion,
The Gap Band,
Albert Ayler,
Visage,
Quando Quango,
The Barracudas,
Gil Scott Heron,
Organ,
Kas Product,
Swell Maps,
The Dead C,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rotary Connection,
Steve Hackett,
The Kinks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Scan 7,
KRS-One,
Bad Manners,
Lucky Dragons,
Bang On A Can,
Leonard Cohen,
Altered Images,
Kurtis Blow,
Josef K,
Black Flag,
Ituana,
Marc Almond,
Iggy Pop,
Joe Finger,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Terry Callier,
Agent Orange,
Pole,
The Offenders,
Young Marble Giants,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.