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 South Africa and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Stockholm.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro 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 One Last Wish to the rock 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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Victims 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aswad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Ice-T,
Lakeside,
Gerry Rafferty,
Public Image Ltd.,
Joy Division,
Arthur Verocai,
Godley & Creme,
ABC,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The J.B.'s,
Sound Behaviour,
Roger Hodgson,
Q and Not U,
The Searchers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gil Scott Heron,
Mantronix,
The Fire Engines,
Pylon,
Cameo,
Clear Light,
Tres Demented,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Skriet,
Easy Going,
Marvin Gaye,
Symarip,
Rotary Connection,
Dual Sessions,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Durutti Column,
Radiopuhelimet,
Wasted Youth,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
the Sonics,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Altered Images,
Arab on Radar,
Toni Rubio,
Eurythmics,
L. Decosne,
The Skatalites,
Blake Baxter,
The Five Americans,
Rekid,
Barrington Levy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
June of 44,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Basic Channel,
The Buckinghams,
Mandrill,
The United States of America,
Johnny Osbourne,
Motorama,
Drexciya,
Spandau Ballet,
The Index,
the Swans,
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.