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 Greece and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Association. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Stooges,
Darondo,
Jeff Lynne,
Stockholm Monsters,
Barrington Levy,
Hashim,
The Toasters,
Boredoms,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bobby Womack,
The Fall,
The Smiths,
Connie Case,
June Days,
The Detroit Cobras,
Crispian St. Peters,
Second Layer,
Franke,
Rosa Yemen,
Crispy Ambulance,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pere Ubu,
Fugazi,
Harmonia,
Joy Division,
The Star Department,
The Evens,
The Techniques,
Graham Central Station,
Eden Ahbez,
Cluster,
John Coltrane,
Johnny Clarke,
Pussy Galore,
Glenn Branca,
Boz Scaggs,
The Cure,
Livin' Joy,
Grandmaster Flash,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gang Gang Dance,
the Human League,
Los Fastidios,
Dorothy Ashby,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tropical Tobacco,
Robert Wyatt,
Soul Sonic Force,
Hoover,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Shuggie Otis,
Royal Trux,
Arcadia,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Henry Cow,
New Order,
Camberwell Now,
PIL,
The Fortunes,
David McCallum,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai.
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.