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 Mali and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Fort Wilson Riot to the jazz 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 The Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All Country Teasers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Hill 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bauhaus,
Pere Ubu,
The Techniques,
Panda Bear,
David Bowie,
The Mojo Men,
Thompson Twins,
Neil Young,
Matthew Halsall,
The Red Krayola,
Bush Tetras,
Echospace,
Stiv Bators,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Gang Green,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Walker Brothers,
Ten City,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Eddi Front,
Can,
Robert Hood,
The United States of America,
Alphaville,
The New Christs,
a-ha,
Oneida,
Aswad,
Todd Terry,
The Fortunes,
The Monochrome Set,
Television Personalities,
Goldenarms,
Qualms,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jeru the Damaja,
Tropical Tobacco,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Joe Smooth,
Malaria!,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Last Poets,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Young Rascals,
The Sound,
Thee Headcoats,
the Human League,
Gerry Rafferty,
Peter & Gordon,
The Birthday Party,
Minutemen,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
the Germs,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
New Order,
The Gories,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.