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 Canada and from Winnipeg.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 harpsichord 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 Guru Guru to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Goldenarms,
Television Personalities,
OOIOO,
Gastr Del Sol,
Eurythmics,
The Grass Roots,
Roxy Music,
Aswad,
Visage,
Quantec,
Camberwell Now,
Black Flag,
DNA,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rotary Connection,
Supertramp,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Smoke,
Sparks,
Roxette,
Junior Murvin,
Radiohead,
Cymande,
Joensuu 1685,
Electric Prunes,
E-Dancer,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Malaria!,
Kerrie Biddell,
Fat Boys,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Barclay James Harvest,
a-ha,
Jeff Lynne,
the Normal,
Yaz,
Soft Machine,
Hardrive,
Babytalk,
Soul Sonic Force,
Y Pants,
Max Romeo,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Los Fastidios,
Camouflage,
Connie Case,
Sound Behaviour,
Pharoah Sanders,
Arab on Radar,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Ronnie Foster,
Michelle Simonal,
Mark Hollis,
the Soft Cell,
Scott Walker,
Graham Central Station,
The Sonics,
Isaac Hayes,
Siglo XX,
John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane.
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.