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 Canada and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 guitar 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 Liliput to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Outsiders,
The Martian,
Kevin Saunderson,
Severed Heads,
Lungfish,
Youth Brigade,
Japan,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Electric Prunes,
Scan 7,
The Vogues,
Tres Demented,
Minnie Riperton,
The Angels of Light,
Vainqueur,
The Dead C,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Brand Nubian,
The Standells,
Tom Boy,
Gabor Szabo,
The Real Kids,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Intrusion,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Boredoms,
Marcia Griffiths,
Model 500,
Guru Guru,
Byron Stingily,
Aaron Thompson,
Groovy Waters,
Vladislav Delay,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
La Düsseldorf,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Easy Going,
Brass Construction,
Joe Smooth,
Marshall Jefferson,
X-101,
Yaz,
Black Sheep,
Charles Mingus,
Pagans,
Glenn Branca,
The Pretty Things,
Alphaville,
Eden Ahbez,
Masters at Work,
Electric Prunes,
The Red Krayola,
Hasil Adkins,
MC5,
Colin Newman,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Marine Girls,
Aloha Tigers,
Au Pairs,
B.T. Express,
The J.B.'s,
The Zeros,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.