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 Romania and from Bologna.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and New York.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin 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 Fort Wilson Riot to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mo-Dettes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television,
AZ,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sparks,
kango's stein massive,
Arcadia,
Motorama,
Donny Hathaway,
Rekid,
Niagra,
K-Klass,
The Associates,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Franke,
Scrapy,
Fad Gadget,
Scion,
Electric Prunes,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
X-Ray Spex,
The Music Machine,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jacob Miller,
Lalann,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Cybotron,
Audionom,
Pet Shop Boys,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Vogues,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Main Source,
Scratch Acid,
Joey Negro,
Skriet,
New Order,
cv313,
Subhumans,
Thompson Twins,
Frankie Knuckles,
Dorothy Ashby,
Flash Fearless,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Brass Construction,
the Association,
Sällskapet,
Godley & Creme,
Fat Boys,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Star Department,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Vainqueur,
Mark Hollis,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Gories,
The Sonics,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.