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 Calgary.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the grime 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 Nik Kershaw. All the underground hits.
All The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Royal Trux,
Bootsy Collins,
Agent Orange,
Rosa Yemen,
Altered Images,
Derrick Morgan,
Minor Threat,
Tim Buckley,
Surgeon,
Be Bop Deluxe,
a-ha,
Barry Ungar,
Ronan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
DJ Style,
The Leaves,
The Busters,
Nico,
the Human League,
48th St. Collective,
Letta Mbulu,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Slits,
The Young Rascals,
Rhythm & Sound,
Johnny Clarke,
Vainqueur,
CMW,
Yazoo,
Arab on Radar,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Barracudas,
Prince Buster,
Absolute Body Control,
Henry Cow,
Camberwell Now,
Harmonia,
Monolake,
Moss Icon,
Pharoah Sanders,
K-Klass,
Newcleus,
Minnie Riperton,
Barclay James Harvest,
Stockholm Monsters,
UT,
The Walker Brothers,
Lalann,
Brick,
DJ Sneak,
Erasure,
The Index,
Rod Modell,
Joe Finger,
Television,
Flipper,
Black Sheep,
Heaven 17,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ice-T,
Procol Harum, Procol Harum, Procol Harum, Procol Harum.
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.