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 Azerbaijan and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Manchester.
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 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 David Bowie 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 Sonny Sharrock to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Parrish 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 an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
The Slits,
Main Source,
Neu!,
JFA,
Barclay James Harvest,
Minny Pops,
Fad Gadget,
UT,
the Slits,
Sun Ra,
The Cowsills,
Kayak,
Kevin Saunderson,
Shoche,
Moss Icon,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
LL Cool J,
Audionom,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ornette Coleman,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Accadde A,
The Pop Group,
The Five Americans,
Jandek,
Erasure,
Mr. Review,
The Zeros,
The Offenders,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Babytalk,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rapeman,
The Fire Engines,
Bang On A Can,
Piero Umiliani,
Gichy Dan,
Sound Behaviour,
Wasted Youth,
Royal Trux,
ABC,
Lyres,
Suicide,
Girls At Our Best!,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Stooges,
Pere Ubu,
The Count Five,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Misunderstood,
Skriet,
Pierre Henry,
Joey Negro,
Sparks,
Wally Richardson,
Scan 7,
Steve Hackett,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.