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 Senegal and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Selecter to the jazz 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 Cecil Taylor. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
Lower 48,
One Last Wish,
Pole,
Suburban Knight,
Pantaleimon,
The Fall,
Main Source,
The Buckinghams,
Aaron Thompson,
Anthony Braxton,
The Fugs,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Peter and Kerry,
The Neon Judgement,
Gabor Szabo,
James White and The Blacks,
Roxy Music,
Half Japanese,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sonny Sharrock,
Wally Richardson,
The Pop Group,
Bootsy Collins,
Average White Band,
Joey Negro,
The Slits,
Lucky Dragons,
The Durutti Column,
Altered Images,
The Gories,
Tomorrow,
Wasted Youth,
The Knickerbockers,
Marc Almond,
Bluetip,
Rhythm & Sound,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jimmy McGriff,
U.S. Maple,
Black Flag,
Joe Smooth,
Pagans,
Scientists,
Zapp,
Ossler,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Tubeway Army,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lalo Schifrin,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Q and Not U,
Y Pants,
La Düsseldorf,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Darondo,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pulsallama,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Divine Comedy,
CMW,
Jerry's Kids,
Amon Düül II,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.