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 South Africa and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Jerry's Kids to the rap 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 Gang Green. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Starr 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Bill Wells,
Ken Boothe,
The Walker Brothers,
Iggy Pop,
Boredoms,
Henry Cow,
Minor Threat,
The Monochrome Set,
Black Pus,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Boz Scaggs,
Kas Product,
The Invisible,
Bootsy Collins,
Alton Ellis,
Soft Cell,
Sällskapet,
MC5,
the Normal,
The Happenings,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bob Dylan,
Infiniti,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Don Cherry,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Joensuu 1685,
Mary Jane Girls,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Gun Club,
DNA,
Japan,
Throbbing Gristle,
Crispy Ambulance,
Black Moon,
Lucky Dragons,
The Five Americans,
Camouflage,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Robert Hood,
The Star Department,
Sugar Minott,
Scratch Acid,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Aloha Tigers,
Slave,
The Moleskins,
The United States of America,
Fluxion,
The Modern Lovers,
Traffic Nightmare,
U.S. Maple,
Jerry's Kids,
Anthony Braxton,
The Motions,
Young Marble Giants,
The Electric Prunes,
Amon Düül,
Ohio Players,
Ice-T,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ossler, Ossler, Ossler, Ossler.
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.