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 Malawi and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Connie Case to the disco 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ohio Players,
Half Japanese,
Leonard Cohen,
the Slits,
The Busters,
Kenny Larkin,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Duran Duran,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
10cc,
Excepter,
Television,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Fugs,
Lalo Schifrin,
Basic Channel,
Lightning Bolt,
The Music Machine,
Gerry Rafferty,
Kerri Chandler,
Gabor Szabo,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Radiopuhelimet,
Parry Music,
OOIOO,
Section 25,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Fela Kuti,
Dual Sessions,
Amon Düül II,
Eurythmics,
The Last Poets,
Panda Bear,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Johnny Clarke,
Robert Hood,
Boogie Down Productions,
Brick,
Chris & Cosey,
Franke,
Crash Course in Science,
X-Ray Spex,
Ossler,
Sun City Girls,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Shadows of Knight,
Matthew Bourne,
Marine Girls,
The Wake,
Flamin' Groovies,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rites of Spring,
Cybotron,
Isaac Hayes,
The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department.
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.