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 Greece and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Joe Finger to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Reagan Youth,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Joe Finger,
Sarah Menescal,
The Pretty Things,
Porter Ricks,
Anthony Braxton,
Tropical Tobacco,
Surgeon,
Lyres,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Cluster,
Simply Red,
Steve Hackett,
Oblivians,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Kinks,
Brand Nubian,
The Gap Band,
Prince Buster,
Vainqueur,
Lee Hazlewood,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sonic Youth,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Standells,
Robert Wyatt,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
John Holt,
Theoretical Girls,
Ultravox,
Dawn Penn,
Basic Channel,
Model 500,
Colin Newman,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Hardrive,
Wire,
Joy Division,
Bobby Womack,
Cheater Slicks,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sam Rivers,
Connie Case,
Wally Richardson,
The Five Americans,
Althea and Donna,
The Cramps,
OOIOO,
Goldenarms,
Neil Young,
Max Romeo,
Gichy Dan,
Stereo Dub,
Alison Limerick,
Cymande,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Slave,
Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville.
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.