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 Nicaragua and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 linndrum 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 Dark Day 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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Brand Nubian,
Make Up,
World's Most,
Moby Grape,
Jesper Dahlback,
Zero Boys,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Wally Richardson,
Robert Görl,
The Associates,
Funkadelic,
CMW,
Fela Kuti,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Soul II Soul,
Erykah Badu,
JFA,
Harpers Bizarre,
48th St. Collective,
Symarip,
The New Christs,
The Zeros,
Sandy B,
James White and The Blacks,
New York Dolls,
Lyres,
Faraquet,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Yellowson,
Kaleidoscope,
Lalann,
The Pretty Things,
Basic Channel,
Goldenarms,
Max Romeo,
Hot Snakes,
Mad Mike,
Bang On A Can,
Joensuu 1685,
Blancmange,
the Normal,
Toni Rubio,
cv313,
Kerri Chandler,
Khruangbin,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Vogues,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Juan Atkins,
Nik Kershaw,
Bobby Womack,
10cc,
Bill Wells,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Cybotron,
Barbara Tucker,
Nico,
Skaos,
Severed Heads, Severed Heads, Severed Heads, Severed Heads.
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.