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 Slovenia and from Seoul.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 David Bowie 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 Avey Tare to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Toasters. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Osbourne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bluetip,
The Knickerbockers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Icehouse,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Mantronix,
The Buckinghams,
Mission of Burma,
T.S.O.L.,
Sugar Minott,
the Sonics,
Gabor Szabo,
Livin' Joy,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
X-102,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Excepter,
Max Romeo,
Isaac Hayes,
Terrestrial Tones,
Eden Ahbez,
8 Eyed Spy,
the Bar-Kays,
Mark Hollis,
The Star Department,
Mandrill,
The Stooges,
Grey Daturas,
Bill Near,
Shuggie Otis,
The Evens,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sun City Girls,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pagans,
Marmalade,
E-Dancer,
Schoolly D,
The Gap Band,
Pussy Galore,
Eli Mardock,
Erykah Badu,
Index,
Cheater Slicks,
Sonic Youth,
Section 25,
Rekid,
Don Cherry,
Anakelly,
Clear Light,
X-Ray Spex,
U.S. Maple,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Zeros,
Junior Murvin,
Audionom,
Masters at Work,
Moby Grape,
The Golliwogs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.