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 Yemen and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Monolake to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eyeless In Gaza record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Faraquet,
Hardrive,
Royal Trux,
Moebius,
K-Klass,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Deakin,
Lee Hazlewood,
Peter & Gordon,
Boogie Down Productions,
Erasure,
Altered Images,
Guru Guru,
Mad Mike,
the Human League,
The Mojo Men,
Nick Fraelich,
Bobby Byrd,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Techniques,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Agitation Free,
The Music Machine,
Ponytail,
The Gap Band,
Ituana,
Joy Division,
Slave,
Tubeway Army,
Ultra Naté,
Wasted Youth,
Dual Sessions,
Morten Harket,
Electric Prunes,
The Leaves,
Anakelly,
Colin Newman,
Matthew Bourne,
Scratch Acid,
Andrew Hill,
Skaos,
Quantec,
Japan,
Joe Finger,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Yaz,
Davy DMX,
Sex Pistols,
Visage,
Make Up,
Rufus Thomas,
MC5,
The Smiths,
Pet Shop Boys,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.