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 Seychelles and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lille.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Banda Bassotti to the jazz 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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All Au Pairs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
Godley & Creme,
Fad Gadget,
Ornette Coleman,
Malaria!,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bobby Womack,
Half Japanese,
Marvin Gaye,
The Pretty Things,
Brass Construction,
Avey Tare,
The Invisible,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Evens,
Magma,
Easy Going,
John Holt,
Funkadelic,
Camberwell Now,
Rotary Connection,
Peter and Kerry,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Black Moon,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jesper Dahlback,
Altered Images,
Sam Rivers,
Pagans,
EPMD,
Joyce Sims,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Jandek,
Isaac Hayes,
The Cramps,
Piero Umiliani,
Nas,
World's Most,
Flamin' Groovies,
Audionom,
Wings,
The Moody Blues,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Pere Ubu,
Nico,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ten City,
The Five Americans,
Bluetip,
Jeru the Damaja,
Radio Birdman,
Nils Olav,
Sarah Menescal,
Brothers Johnson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Monochrome Set,
Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne.
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.