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 Bahamas and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 spring reverb 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 Thee Headcoats to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All Soul II Soul tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Wolf Eyes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Boredoms,
Sixth Finger,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Girls At Our Best!,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Niagra,
Pet Shop Boys,
Jandek,
Scientists,
Donald Byrd,
Barbara Tucker,
Gong,
Ultra Naté,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Matthew Halsall,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Moss Icon,
Loose Ends,
Wasted Youth,
The Fortunes,
Brick,
Simply Red,
Scrapy,
Joe Smooth,
The Fall,
Tropical Tobacco,
Judy Mowatt,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Spandau Ballet,
Deakin,
Matthew Bourne,
Cluster,
Agent Orange,
Moebius,
Lou Reed,
Jacques Brel,
Ohio Players,
Quantec,
Peter and Kerry,
Circle Jerks,
ABBA,
Ronnie Foster,
Nico,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Japan,
Masters at Work,
Althea and Donna,
Suicide,
The Electric Prunes,
The Smiths,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rites of Spring,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Jeff Lynne,
Ludus,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.