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 Australia and from Toronto.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Cairo.
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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Magma to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All Freddie Wadling tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
Letta Mbulu,
Whodini,
The Invisible,
Soul II Soul,
Laurel Aitken,
Sandy B,
Siglo XX,
Ronan,
Ice-T,
Agitation Free,
The Sound,
David McCallum,
James White and The Blacks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Matthew Bourne,
Darondo,
The Index,
Davy DMX,
The Busters,
Flipper,
Angry Samoans,
Lindisfarne,
the Sonics,
Camberwell Now,
Theoretical Girls,
Lebanon Hanover,
Jesper Dahlback,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lou Reed,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kaleidoscope,
Severed Heads,
ABC,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Erykah Badu,
This Heat,
Peter and Kerry,
U.S. Maple,
Eden Ahbez,
Minutemen,
The Monks,
Pulsallama,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Idris Muhammad,
Public Image Ltd.,
Fad Gadget,
Cybotron,
Wally Richardson,
Eurythmics,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Hoover,
Prince Buster,
Reagan Youth,
The Fuzztones,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Basic Channel,
Aural Exciters,
Moss Icon,
Eve St. Jones,
World's Most,
Pagans,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.