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 Barbados and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Archie Shepp to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All Pantaleimon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Saints,
MDC,
Nick Fraelich,
Subhumans,
Don Cherry,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Malaria!,
Rites of Spring,
Silicon Teens,
Blake Baxter,
Tomorrow,
Sam Rivers,
Byron Stingily,
Model 500,
Sugar Minott,
Ludus,
The Blues Magoos,
Soulsonic Force,
Todd Terry,
The Gap Band,
Interpol,
Banda Bassotti,
Groovy Waters,
The Grass Roots,
The Fall,
Kaleidoscope,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Prince Buster,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Trojans,
Lalo Schifrin,
Man Eating Sloth,
Gang Green,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Normal,
Leonard Cohen,
Boogie Down Productions,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Zapp,
Scan 7,
Amon Düül,
Derrick Morgan,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jeff Lynne,
Jandek,
48th St. Collective,
Skaos,
Kool Moe Dee,
Scratch Acid,
Judy Mowatt,
Laurel Aitken,
The Pretty Things,
Ten City,
Mr. Review,
The Doobie Brothers,
LL Cool J,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ultra Naté,
Kerrie Biddell,
Susan Cadogan,
Mad Mike,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.