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 United Kingdom and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Toni Rubio to the grime 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 Wings. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
Banda Bassotti,
Pantaleimon,
Stetsasonic,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Young Marble Giants,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Niagra,
Kayak,
Kenny Larkin,
The Buckinghams,
Blossom Toes,
Robert Görl,
Tubeway Army,
Das Ding,
In Retrospect,
The Toasters,
cv313,
The Doobie Brothers,
Fat Boys,
DNA,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Goldenarms,
Eli Mardock,
Barrington Levy,
Erasure,
Stiv Bators,
Alphaville,
The Slits,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bang On A Can,
PIL,
Mary Jane Girls,
Amon Düül II,
Yusef Lateef,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Techniques,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gang Starr,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Godley & Creme,
X-101,
Eurythmics,
Jacob Miller,
Zero Boys,
La Düsseldorf,
a-ha,
The Misunderstood,
Pharoah Sanders,
UT,
The Vogues,
The Shadows of Knight,
L. Decosne,
Aural Exciters,
Wally Richardson,
Man Parrish,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Crispian St. Peters,
Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims.
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.