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 Tunisia and from Milan.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Kerri Chandler to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Seeds,
Popol Vuh,
Aaron Thompson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Zero Boys,
Quando Quango,
The Standells,
Arab on Radar,
John Cale,
Easy Going,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Chris Corsano,
The Sound,
Arcadia,
Lebanon Hanover,
Soul Sonic Force,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Cramps,
Neil Young,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bill Wells,
Supertramp,
Silicon Teens,
Byron Stingily,
The Monochrome Set,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Glenn Branca,
Rakim,
Cybotron,
Electric Prunes,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Victims,
the Human League,
Pylon,
Amazonics,
The Gap Band,
Y Pants,
Parry Music,
Michelle Simonal,
Ice-T,
Pantaleimon,
Index,
T.S.O.L.,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Dual Sessions,
Isaac Hayes,
Barrington Levy,
The Names,
Terry Callier,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Average White Band,
The Electric Prunes,
Jeff Mills,
Leonard Cohen,
Accadde A,
The Trojans,
Ituana,
Scan 7,
China Crisis,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.