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 Somalia 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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Aaron Thompson to the rap 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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
Pulsallama,
cv313,
Trumans Water,
Neil Young,
The Raincoats,
Stereo Dub,
The Neon Judgement,
The Electric Prunes,
Danielle Patucci,
Wasted Youth,
Ronnie Foster,
Clear Light,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Masters at Work,
UT,
Gerry Rafferty,
Chris & Cosey,
Crash Course in Science,
Sarah Menescal,
Godley & Creme,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Letta Mbulu,
Pylon,
Ossler,
EPMD,
The Durutti Column,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kayak,
The Smoke,
Rites of Spring,
Pantaleimon,
LL Cool J,
Grey Daturas,
Dual Sessions,
Faraquet,
Dark Day,
MDC,
the Swans,
Bronski Beat,
Girls At Our Best!,
Spandau Ballet,
This Heat,
Bill Wells,
Ponytail,
Qualms,
Mark Hollis,
MC5,
The Motions,
Aloha Tigers,
T.S.O.L.,
Janne Schatter,
Skaos,
Donny Hathaway,
Yusef Lateef,
Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant.
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.