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 Mozambique and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 rhodes 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 Colin Newman to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eddi Front record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultra Naté,
Urselle,
Joe Finger,
The Blues Magoos,
Man Eating Sloth,
Jerry's Kids,
Lyres,
Ronnie Foster,
Rod Modell,
Matthew Bourne,
Roxette,
Sonic Youth,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Maleditus Sound,
Cymande,
Eli Mardock,
The Fire Engines,
Fatback Band,
Y Pants,
Junior Murvin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lebanon Hanover,
Faust,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gang Gang Dance,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Surgeon,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sixth Finger,
Arcadia,
Procol Harum,
Gang of Four,
Hashim,
Quadrant,
Idris Muhammad,
The Gun Club,
Monks,
Glambeats Corp.,
Girls At Our Best!,
Robert Wyatt,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
A Certain Ratio,
Lakeside,
Godley & Creme,
Man Parrish,
Patti Smith,
Skarface,
David McCallum,
Electric Prunes,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Techniques,
Mr. Review,
Organ,
Marvin Gaye,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lungfish,
The Stooges,
Curtis Mayfield,
Depeche Mode,
Jesper Dahlback,
Supertramp,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.