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 Chile and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 sitar 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 Freddie Wadling to the dance 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 Gang of Four. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
The Angels of Light,
Con Funk Shun,
Minor Threat,
Arcadia,
Soft Cell,
Masters at Work,
Loose Ends,
Jeff Lynne,
DJ Sneak,
Motorama,
Young Marble Giants,
X-Ray Spex,
Byron Stingily,
Jacob Miller,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Tubeway Army,
MC5,
The Gories,
Jacques Brel,
Bauhaus,
kango's stein massive,
The Young Rascals,
Suburban Knight,
Radiopuhelimet,
Underground Resistance,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Leonard Cohen,
Kerri Chandler,
Don Cherry,
Kurtis Blow,
Lungfish,
Glenn Branca,
The Modern Lovers,
Bobby Womack,
Sun City Girls,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Oblivians,
Infiniti,
Stetsasonic,
Barrington Levy,
the Normal,
Fear,
Tim Buckley,
JFA,
Morten Harket,
Cameo,
Nas,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lucky Dragons,
Robert Hood,
Dennis Brown,
Matthew Halsall,
Ronan,
Mandrill,
Erasure,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Donny Hathaway,
Qualms,
The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos.
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.