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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 chamberlin 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 a-ha to the electroclash 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force 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 rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June of 44 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cure,
Blancmange,
OOIOO,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Dorothy Ashby,
Letta Mbulu,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
David McCallum,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Mark Hollis,
Shuggie Otis,
The Residents,
Qualms,
Radiohead,
Niagra,
Y Pants,
The Selecter,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kerrie Biddell,
the Normal,
The Fall,
The Monochrome Set,
Animal Collective,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Aural Exciters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lalo Schifrin,
Joy Division,
Ice-T,
Faraquet,
Sparks,
Barbara Tucker,
B.T. Express,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Cal Tjader,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Josef K,
Ronan,
The Alarm Clocks,
Funkadelic,
Model 500,
Little Man,
Royal Trux,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gong,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Colin Newman,
Oblivians,
Bobby Sherman,
The Happenings,
Black Flag,
Davy DMX,
Derrick Morgan,
Grauzone,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Fugazi,
Sällskapet,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.