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 Russia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 Manila and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 linndrum 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 Maurizio to the punk 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 The Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Searchers 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
Moby Grape,
The Knickerbockers,
Minor Threat,
Zapp,
Danielle Patucci,
Roger Hodgson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Urselle,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Technova,
The Cure,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Durutti Column,
Organ,
Mary Jane Girls,
Soft Machine,
Wings,
The Barracudas,
Chrome,
Isaac Hayes,
Ultravox,
Amazonics,
Infiniti,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Eric Copeland,
AZ,
Marc Almond,
Kaleidoscope,
Arab on Radar,
Das Ding,
The Grass Roots,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Basic Channel,
Eurythmics,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Scott Walker,
Bronski Beat,
The Seeds,
Gong,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Drexciya,
Amon Düül,
The Dirtbombs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Fire Engines,
Quantec,
Joe Smooth,
Blancmange,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
ABC,
One Last Wish,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Mars,
This Heat, This Heat, This Heat, This Heat.
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.