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 Slovenia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Copenhagen.
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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Judy Mowatt to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All LL Cool J tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a This Heat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
Terry Callier,
Bill Near,
Skaos,
Howard Jones,
Lalann,
Amon Düül,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sun City Girls,
Carl Craig,
Byron Stingily,
Japan,
Ornette Coleman,
Joy Division,
Wire,
The Seeds,
Jandek,
AZ,
Negative Approach,
Aaron Thompson,
Gerry Rafferty,
Half Japanese,
Harry Pussy,
Vladislav Delay,
Flash Fearless,
the Bar-Kays,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Roger Hodgson,
Kas Product,
Judy Mowatt,
James White and The Blacks,
Patti Smith,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Soul II Soul,
The Offenders,
X-Ray Spex,
Royal Trux,
Crash Course in Science,
Davy DMX,
kango's stein massive,
Country Teasers,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Fuzztones,
The Techniques,
Gang Green,
The Names,
Hashim,
Bootsy Collins,
Derrick May,
Tommy Roe,
Young Marble Giants,
The Gladiators,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gang Starr,
Blake Baxter,
Sixth Finger,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deadbeat,
Hardrive,
Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants.
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.