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 Maldives and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 mellotron 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Harpers Bizarre. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Soulsonic Force,
Delta 5,
La Düsseldorf,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Pussy Galore,
Sugar Minott,
The Associates,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Oneida,
Kaleidoscope,
Index,
Barrington Levy,
The Skatalites,
David Bowie,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Moleskins,
Fat Boys,
Archie Shepp,
Average White Band,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ralphi Rosario,
ABBA,
Frankie Knuckles,
Echospace,
The Count Five,
Ken Boothe,
Morten Harket,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Nirvana,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Nick Fraelich,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Simply Red,
Silicon Teens,
Monolake,
AZ,
Jerry's Kids,
Skaos,
Brothers Johnson,
Surgeon,
Sixth Finger,
The Kinks,
Spoonie Gee,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Alphaville,
Mantronix,
Grauzone,
Procol Harum,
Al Stewart,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Marc Almond,
Kurtis Blow,
Interpol,
Scion,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Happenings,
Joey Negro,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Mars,
Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic.
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.