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 Malaysia and from Manila.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 sitar 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 Agitation Free to the funk 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 UT. All the underground hits.
All Eric Copeland tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Robert Hood,
Outsiders,
Fugazi,
Slave,
Parry Music,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
These Immortal Souls,
Subhumans,
The Last Poets,
Accadde A,
Nils Olav,
H. Thieme,
The Blackbyrds,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Janne Schatter,
Talk Talk,
Bizarre Inc.,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lakeside,
The Shadows of Knight,
Angry Samoans,
Minnie Riperton,
The Litter,
Scientists,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
T.S.O.L.,
The Angels of Light,
Deakin,
Dave Gahan,
Negative Approach,
Joe Finger,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
UT,
Hoover,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Half Japanese,
Sex Pistols,
the Fania All-Stars,
Crime,
Rosa Yemen,
Derrick Morgan,
Symarip,
Model 500,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pussy Galore,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Radiopuhelimet,
Jandek,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jacob Miller,
The Real Kids,
Radio Birdman,
Mantronix,
Robert Görl,
Bad Manners,
Minutemen,
the Human League,
The Durutti Column,
the Germs,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.