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 Zambia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 oboe 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 Lalo Schifrin to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Wally Richardson. All the underground hits.
All Simply Red tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobbi Humphrey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Youth Brigade,
Tomorrow,
Blancmange,
Peter and Kerry,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Al Stewart,
Sister Nancy,
Barclay James Harvest,
DJ Style,
Bad Manners,
John Foxx,
Quando Quango,
Aural Exciters,
Das Ding,
kango's stein massive,
Ronnie Foster,
Tom Boy,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Gories,
X-Ray Spex,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Janne Schatter,
Amazonics,
PIL,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Tommy Roe,
Nas,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Avey Tare,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pierre Henry,
Neil Young,
Panda Bear,
Fear,
The Count Five,
Soft Machine,
Babytalk,
Fad Gadget,
Average White Band,
Groovy Waters,
Brick,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ohio Players,
cv313,
The Gladiators,
Grey Daturas,
Interpol,
Todd Terry,
Radio Birdman,
Alphaville,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Names,
Archie Shepp,
Rosa Yemen,
Motorama,
Gichy Dan,
Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas.
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.