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 Bulgaria and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 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 Peter & Gordon to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Iggy Pop. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Popol Vuh,
Funky Four + One,
Pantaleimon,
Symarip,
Pagans,
Y Pants,
Saccharine Trust,
Rites of Spring,
The Grass Roots,
Youth Brigade,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Stooges,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Glambeats Corp.,
Darondo,
The Sound,
Japan,
The Victims,
The Blues Magoos,
Surgeon,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sugar Minott,
The Neon Judgement,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Slave,
Bronski Beat,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Von Mondo,
The Misunderstood,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ituana,
Marc Almond,
Guru Guru,
Au Pairs,
Nas,
The Associates,
Michelle Simonal,
Young Marble Giants,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Suburban Knight,
Funkadelic,
Jeff Lynne,
Freddie Wadling,
Joey Negro,
Iggy Pop,
Lyres,
Andrew Hill,
Cameo,
The Cramps,
The Dave Clark Five,
Robert Wyatt,
Kool Moe Dee,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Cybotron,
The Fire Engines,
Crooked Eye,
The Beau Brummels,
Qualms, Qualms, Qualms, Qualms.
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.