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 Bahrain and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 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 Joy Division to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ralphi Rosario record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
Morten Harket,
Sound Behaviour,
Trumans Water,
Parry Music,
Loose Ends,
Josef K,
The Happenings,
Derrick Morgan,
World's Most,
MDC,
Scion,
Vladislav Delay,
Tears for Fears,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Fire Engines,
Japan,
Excepter,
The Selecter,
Reuben Wilson,
Boredoms,
Barclay James Harvest,
KRS-One,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ornette Coleman,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sex Pistols,
Jandek,
Rekid,
Saccharine Trust,
One Last Wish,
Harpers Bizarre,
Urselle,
The Skatalites,
Ice-T,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Funkadelic,
The Blues Magoos,
Maurizio,
The Slits,
Grey Daturas,
Outsiders,
The Offenders,
Black Flag,
Monolake,
Cameo,
Bang On A Can,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Newcleus,
Visage,
LL Cool J,
Bootsy Collins,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Barracudas,
Zapp,
The Flesh Eaters,
Matthew Halsall,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.