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 Fiji and from Mumbai.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Moody Blues. All the underground hits.
All Derrick May tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tommy Roe,
The Knickerbockers,
Johnny Osbourne,
Nik Kershaw,
Desert Stars,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Reuben Wilson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Cal Tjader,
New Age Steppers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Crime,
Deepchord,
The Black Dice,
Sparks,
Yusef Lateef,
FM Einheit,
Buzzcocks,
Adolescents,
X-Ray Spex,
The Tremeloes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Shadows of Knight,
E-Dancer,
Robert Wyatt,
Organ,
The Dave Clark Five,
Neu!,
Ituana,
Flipper,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Matthew Bourne,
Archie Shepp,
Sixth Finger,
Johnny Clarke,
Jeru the Damaja,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Absolute Body Control,
Pylon,
Terry Callier,
Supertramp,
H. Thieme,
Patti Smith,
The Motions,
Arab on Radar,
Big Daddy Kane,
Jacob Miller,
Piero Umiliani,
Saccharine Trust,
Half Japanese,
Fela Kuti,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Man Eating Sloth,
Infiniti,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bluetip,
Panda Bear,
Skaos,
The Residents,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.