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 Australia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Lou Reed 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 Lou Christie to the electroclash 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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sandy B record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
F. McDonald,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Wasted Youth,
Grauzone,
Radiohead,
Yazoo,
Joensuu 1685,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Black Dice,
The Sound,
FM Einheit,
Arcadia,
Vladislav Delay,
The Slackers,
Morten Harket,
Alphaville,
Nas,
China Crisis,
Suburban Knight,
X-Ray Spex,
Fela Kuti,
Sugar Minott,
Black Moon,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Warsaw,
Graham Central Station,
Monolake,
Lightning Bolt,
Scratch Acid,
Nils Olav,
Bizarre Inc.,
Tommy Roe,
Lungfish,
Talk Talk,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Alice Coltrane,
Darondo,
Sunsets and Hearts,
ABBA,
Duran Duran,
London Community Gospel Choir,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Bananas,
Agent Orange,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Neil Young,
Eli Mardock,
UT,
Idris Muhammad,
Eric B and Rakim,
Angry Samoans,
Mantronix,
Pulsallama,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Scott Walker,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Jeff Lynne,
Mandrill,
Wolf Eyes,
Jerry's Kids,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.