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 Swaziland and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Woodstock.
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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Desert Stars to the funk 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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Remains,
Gang Green,
Delon & Dalcan,
Boz Scaggs,
Godley & Creme,
Bluetip,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Main Source,
Bobby Hutcherson,
the Germs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Letta Mbulu,
The Motions,
Con Funk Shun,
Essential Logic,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Ultravox,
The Detroit Cobras,
Adolescents,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Fortunes,
Todd Terry,
The Fall,
Circle Jerks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Glenn Branca,
Piero Umiliani,
Althea and Donna,
Desert Stars,
Scratch Acid,
Arthur Verocai,
The American Breed,
Bob Dylan,
Bad Manners,
The Evens,
Oblivians,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pantytec,
Au Pairs,
Gichy Dan,
Deepchord,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Fluxion,
Nas,
Jandek,
The Saints,
Symarip,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Liliput,
Angry Samoans,
Mandrill,
Sugar Minott,
Barry Ungar,
The Beau Brummels,
Porter Ricks,
Aaron Thompson,
Unwound,
Visage, Visage, Visage, Visage.
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.