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 Suriname and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 clarinet 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
Bluetip,
Tommy Roe,
The Mojo Men,
The Litter,
Depeche Mode,
Zapp,
Throbbing Gristle,
Technova,
Au Pairs,
The Names,
Sparks,
Ossler,
Graham Central Station,
New York Dolls,
Harpers Bizarre,
Radiohead,
Ohio Players,
Junior Murvin,
Public Enemy,
Das Ding,
Royal Trux,
Unwound,
Joey Negro,
Maleditus Sound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mr. Review,
Freddie Wadling,
Sun City Girls,
Eli Mardock,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kas Product,
Ituana,
Pierre Henry,
UT,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ice-T,
Harmonia,
Man Parrish,
The Dave Clark Five,
Yazoo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Mo-Dettes,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Stooges,
The Count Five,
Dead Boys,
Ten City,
One Last Wish,
The Skatalites,
Ludus,
The Gladiators,
Carl Craig,
Theoretical Girls,
Sight & Sound,
Camberwell Now,
Althea and Donna,
Yusef Lateef,
Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar.
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.