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 Belarus and from Beijing.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 808 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 Man Eating Sloth to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Martian. All the underground hits.
All Nation of Ulysses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rekid,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Star Department,
Colin Newman,
Tears for Fears,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Graham Central Station,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sam Rivers,
Lou Reed,
Ludus,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
B.T. Express,
Throbbing Gristle,
Moss Icon,
Spandau Ballet,
Scrapy,
The Leaves,
Brand Nubian,
Gang Starr,
Lyres,
Essential Logic,
Danielle Patucci,
kango's stein massive,
Jacob Miller,
Terrestrial Tones,
Y Pants,
John Lydon,
Alice Coltrane,
The Golliwogs,
Parry Music,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Absolute Body Control,
Idris Muhammad,
Franke,
The Human League,
Pulsallama,
Curtis Mayfield,
Theoretical Girls,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Detroit Cobras,
Pussy Galore,
The Velvet Underground,
The Misunderstood,
Swans,
Q and Not U,
Minutemen,
Fugazi,
In Retrospect,
Morten Harket,
Jeru the Damaja,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sound Behaviour,
Mantronix,
The Walker Brothers,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Television,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.