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 Australia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 synthesizer 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 Ituana to the disco 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 The Wake. All the underground hits.
All Angry Samoans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marine Girls,
Amon Düül,
Michelle Simonal,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Peter & Gordon,
Crime,
Josef K,
Soft Machine,
Agitation Free,
Nico,
Bill Wells,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Panda Bear,
Gregory Isaacs,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Inner City,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Donny Hathaway,
Matthew Bourne,
Wolf Eyes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Tubeway Army,
Pet Shop Boys,
Absolute Body Control,
Glenn Branca,
Yellowson,
Moss Icon,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Dark Day,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Eric B and Rakim,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Sound,
Archie Shepp,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Main Source,
Echospace,
New Order,
Deakin,
Bobby Sherman,
Siglo XX,
Robert Görl,
Lightning Bolt,
The Stooges,
Reuben Wilson,
Q65,
Desert Stars,
Sällskapet,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Freddie Wadling,
Anthony Braxton,
Crash Course in Science,
DNA,
The Misunderstood,
Junior Murvin,
The United States of America,
The Pop Group,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.