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 Colombia and from Woodstock.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Unrelated Segments to the crunk 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 Hoover. All the underground hits.
All John Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yellowson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barry Ungar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Ken Boothe,
Gregory Isaacs,
Soulsonic Force,
Marcia Griffiths,
Roxy Music,
JFA,
Albert Ayler,
Model 500,
Brick,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Groovy Waters,
the Human League,
Negative Approach,
Drexciya,
The Move,
Josef K,
Altered Images,
Carl Craig,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
ABC,
Cecil Taylor,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Scrapy,
La Düsseldorf,
Newcleus,
Animal Collective,
Monks,
Country Teasers,
Minor Threat,
X-101,
Stereo Dub,
Hot Snakes,
the Soft Cell,
Flash Fearless,
a-ha,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Qualms,
Bush Tetras,
10cc,
The Knickerbockers,
Susan Cadogan,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Toni Rubio,
Lalo Schifrin,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pantytec,
Easy Going,
The Fire Engines,
Joey Negro,
Guru Guru,
The Litter,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Adolescents,
Joensuu 1685,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Angels of Light,
The Monks,
Subhumans,
Popol Vuh,
Ossler,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles.
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.