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 Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 synthesizer 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 Maleditus Sound to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Donny Hathaway. All the underground hits.
All Vainqueur tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Bananas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Beasts of Bourbon,
CMW,
Rites of Spring,
The Monochrome Set,
Rekid,
Sight & Sound,
The Move,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
E-Dancer,
Lakeside,
Gabor Szabo,
Flash Fearless,
The Divine Comedy,
10cc,
Pantytec,
Delta 5,
Matthew Halsall,
Sex Pistols,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Quando Quango,
Robert Hood,
Second Layer,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Music Machine,
Panda Bear,
Flamin' Groovies,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
L. Decosne,
Loose Ends,
Susan Cadogan,
Derrick May,
Alison Limerick,
The Gories,
Public Image Ltd.,
David Axelrod,
Amazonics,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Girls At Our Best!,
Inner City,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Television Personalities,
Technova,
Judy Mowatt,
The Associates,
Fear,
D'Angelo,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Man Parrish,
Quadrant,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ice-T,
Marshall Jefferson,
B.T. Express,
The Modern Lovers,
Blancmange,
Maleditus Sound,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.