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 Bhutan and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Aswad to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Blues Magoos. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Fugazi,
FM Einheit,
Public Enemy,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Monolake,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Cymande,
Television,
Half Japanese,
Smog,
The Blues Magoos,
Flash Fearless,
The Index,
DJ Style,
Moby Grape,
Zapp,
Lou Christie,
The Gap Band,
John Cale,
Bill Wells,
Anakelly,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Aswad,
Skarface,
Peter & Gordon,
JFA,
Connie Case,
Television Personalities,
Make Up,
Von Mondo,
Siglo XX,
Scott Walker,
The Tremeloes,
Toni Rubio,
Bobby Sherman,
Curtis Mayfield,
Barclay James Harvest,
A Certain Ratio,
Rotary Connection,
Dawn Penn,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Kerri Chandler,
Sister Nancy,
Severed Heads,
Grauzone,
Parry Music,
David Axelrod,
Max Romeo,
Funkadelic,
Colin Newman,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Wire,
Radio Birdman,
Blake Baxter,
The Invisible,
Sällskapet,
Mandrill,
Harmonia,
Crispian St. Peters,
Hashim, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim.
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.