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 Palau and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and London.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Michelle Simonal to the punk 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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All F. McDonald tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Babytalk,
KRS-One,
Crash Course in Science,
Albert Ayler,
Nas,
World's Most,
Lou Christie,
Gichy Dan,
Kayak,
Sound Behaviour,
Scratch Acid,
Gang Starr,
The Gories,
The Raincoats,
The Golliwogs,
Country Joe & The Fish,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
the Slits,
Reagan Youth,
Monks,
The Wake,
David Bowie,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Electric Prunes,
X-101,
Bad Manners,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Moleskins,
Icehouse,
Blancmange,
Minor Threat,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ronnie Foster,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Half Japanese,
Ponytail,
Thompson Twins,
Fat Boys,
Tubeway Army,
Fugazi,
Bobby Byrd,
Lungfish,
Gong,
Arcadia,
Minnie Riperton,
F. McDonald,
La Düsseldorf,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Quando Quango,
Derrick Morgan,
Mantronix,
The Modern Lovers,
Moebius,
Rufus Thomas,
Sight & Sound,
Niagra,
the Sonics,
Darondo,
Los Fastidios,
Dual Sessions,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.