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 Belize and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Robert Görl to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Dorothy Ashby. All the underground hits.
All Blancmange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sam Rivers,
La Düsseldorf,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Davy DMX,
DJ Sneak,
Bobby Womack,
Lightning Bolt,
Schoolly D,
Jacques Brel,
T.S.O.L.,
Lou Reed,
The Misunderstood,
Howard Jones,
Ituana,
The Kinks,
The Move,
Magma,
The Sound,
Scrapy,
The Walker Brothers,
The Selecter,
Bootsy Collins,
MDC,
Harmonia,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Josef K,
Accadde A,
OOIOO,
Trumans Water,
Darondo,
the Slits,
Lindisfarne,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sonny Sharrock,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gong,
The Doors,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Joensuu 1685,
Eddi Front,
Jandek,
The Fall,
The Fugs,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sun City Girls,
Zero Boys,
The Pop Group,
The Mummies,
Reagan Youth,
Inner City,
Pharoah Sanders,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Trojans,
New Order,
The Cramps,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs.
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.