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 Latvia and from London.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 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 Alphaville to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 A Certain Ratio. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Carl Craig record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Sheep,
48th St. Collective,
A Certain Ratio,
The Real Kids,
The Skatalites,
Lindisfarne,
Peter and Kerry,
Max Romeo,
Avey Tare,
The Music Machine,
Magazine,
Country Teasers,
Stockholm Monsters,
Animal Collective,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sun Ra,
Skarface,
Theoretical Girls,
The Busters,
Minutemen,
Erasure,
The Fuzztones,
Sixth Finger,
Kenny Larkin,
Warren Ellis,
John Foxx,
Niagra,
Suicide,
Kool Moe Dee,
Amazonics,
Swell Maps,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
X-101,
Aaron Thompson,
Quando Quango,
Cecil Taylor,
Johnny Clarke,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Zeros,
Roxette,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Section 25,
The Happenings,
the Normal,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Walker Brothers,
Throbbing Gristle,
Carl Craig,
Harpers Bizarre,
Janne Schatter,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Robert Görl,
Marvin Gaye,
Fad Gadget,
Tomorrow,
Laurel Aitken,
The J.B.'s,
Aswad,
Derrick May,
DNA,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.