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 Zimbabwe and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 güiro 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 Camberwell Now to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Kings Of Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Raincoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Stereo Dub,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kenny Larkin,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Altered Images,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Cameo,
Cecil Taylor,
Camberwell Now,
The Sound,
Tommy Roe,
Symarip,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Urselle,
The Dave Clark Five,
Susan Cadogan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Invisible,
Stiv Bators,
Brothers Johnson,
The Music Machine,
Severed Heads,
Althea and Donna,
Delta 5,
T.S.O.L.,
Connie Case,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Wake,
The Durutti Column,
The Shadows of Knight,
Schoolly D,
Harmonia,
Excepter,
Cheater Slicks,
Scott Walker,
Donny Hathaway,
The Star Department,
Rod Modell,
Arcadia,
Q65,
The Five Americans,
Hashim,
Sound Behaviour,
Sugar Minott,
Vladislav Delay,
Boz Scaggs,
Model 500,
New York Dolls,
Vainqueur,
Eddi Front,
Black Bananas,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pantaleimon,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Flipper,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bootsy Collins,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Half Japanese,
Cymande,
Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane.
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.