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 Ivory Coast and from Madrid.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Fort Wilson Riot tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tim Buckley record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
Althea and Donna,
Brick,
The Raincoats,
The Gladiators,
Jandek,
Suicide,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Reuben Wilson,
MDC,
June Days,
Aaron Thompson,
Massinfluence,
Mantronix,
Lalo Schifrin,
Schoolly D,
Minnie Riperton,
Morten Harket,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Fat Boys,
The Modern Lovers,
Sugar Minott,
The Shadows of Knight,
A Certain Ratio,
The Fortunes,
Joensuu 1685,
Aural Exciters,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Sound,
Bobby Womack,
Erasure,
Amon Düül II,
Youth Brigade,
The Skatalites,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Velvet Underground,
Donny Hathaway,
Rod Modell,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Section 25,
Nick Fraelich,
Rites of Spring,
Duran Duran,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Drive Like Jehu,
Grauzone,
Stetsasonic,
Silicon Teens,
Sex Pistols,
The Seeds,
John Holt,
The Sonics,
Colin Newman,
One Last Wish,
Los Fastidios,
Banda Bassotti,
Joey Negro,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Royal Trux,
Talk Talk,
Second Layer,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.