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 Vanuatu and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 808 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 The Cowsills to the rock 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 These Immortal Souls. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Iggy Pop,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Urselle,
Piero Umiliani,
Von Mondo,
Peter & Gordon,
Jimmy McGriff,
DJ Sneak,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Organ,
Soulsonic Force,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Rotary Connection,
Kenny Larkin,
Drexciya,
Mantronix,
Rufus Thomas,
Mars,
The Smiths,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Quando Quango,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marshall Jefferson,
Buzzcocks,
The Cure,
Glenn Branca,
Roy Ayers,
Morten Harket,
Whodini,
La Düsseldorf,
The Zeros,
Shuggie Otis,
Moss Icon,
Half Japanese,
Desert Stars,
The Saints,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ken Boothe,
Juan Atkins,
Essential Logic,
Tim Buckley,
Simply Red,
Lakeside,
The Associates,
Marcia Griffiths,
Spandau Ballet,
Crime,
Hoover,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Masters at Work,
Sun Ra,
Malaria!,
The Move,
Matthew Halsall,
Patti Smith,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
L. Decosne,
The Invisible,
Sam Rivers,
cv313,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.