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 Kenya and from Lyon.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Absolute Body Control to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Rhythim Is Rhythim. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool Moe Dee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quadrant record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Morten Harket,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
X-101,
Amon Düül II,
Jacques Brel,
Kenny Larkin,
Ultra Naté,
Alice Coltrane,
Stetsasonic,
Stiv Bators,
Electric Prunes,
Magma,
Barry Ungar,
June of 44,
The Pop Group,
The New Christs,
Camberwell Now,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Nirvana,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Interpol,
The Electric Prunes,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sight & Sound,
Alton Ellis,
Oblivians,
Los Fastidios,
The Slits,
Scratch Acid,
Curtis Mayfield,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Adolescents,
Sandy B,
Marmalade,
David Axelrod,
Bobby Byrd,
Infiniti,
One Last Wish,
Big Daddy Kane,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Remains,
AZ,
Archie Shepp,
Ultravox,
The Gap Band,
Lindisfarne,
The Beau Brummels,
Metal Thangz,
Kayak,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Count Five,
Agitation Free,
Radio Birdman,
CMW,
David Bowie,
Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes.
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.