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 Latvia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Robert Palmer 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the grime 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 Marc Almond. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The United States of America,
John Foxx,
June Days,
Can,
Inner City,
Isaac Hayes,
The Invisible,
Peter & Gordon,
Goldenarms,
Johnny Clarke,
Robert Hood,
Althea and Donna,
Kerrie Biddell,
Yaz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sällskapet,
Adolescents,
Brothers Johnson,
Gong,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The American Breed,
Whodini,
Silicon Teens,
Stereo Dub,
Mantronix,
Saccharine Trust,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Groovy Waters,
Nils Olav,
Danielle Patucci,
LL Cool J,
Black Bananas,
Michelle Simonal,
Khruangbin,
Anakelly,
Mo-Dettes,
Glenn Branca,
Howard Jones,
Erasure,
The Cramps,
Youth Brigade,
The Misunderstood,
The Offenders,
The Music Machine,
Charles Mingus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rosa Yemen,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Slackers,
Flash Fearless,
The Angels of Light,
Schoolly D,
Swans,
Ultra Naté,
These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls.
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.