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 Japan and from Cairo.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Eric B and Rakim to the dance 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 Shuggie Otis. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
David Axelrod,
Arab on Radar,
Althea and Donna,
Dennis Brown,
Simply Red,
The Move,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Young Rascals,
The Neon Judgement,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Music Machine,
Wally Richardson,
Moebius,
Duran Duran,
Agitation Free,
Television Personalities,
The Kinks,
Donald Byrd,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lungfish,
Ossler,
Delta 5,
One Last Wish,
The Dead C,
In Retrospect,
Iggy Pop,
Eve St. Jones,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Motions,
Model 500,
The Victims,
Lower 48,
Wings,
The Gap Band,
The Cramps,
The Associates,
Ludus,
Thee Headcoats,
Gerry Rafferty,
The United States of America,
The Martian,
Siglo XX,
Soft Machine,
Glenn Branca,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jacob Miller,
Talk Talk,
Throbbing Gristle,
Technova,
Crime,
Joey Negro,
Cybotron,
Eli Mardock,
The Golliwogs,
Ice-T,
The Misunderstood,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
R.M.O.,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
MDC,
Livin' Joy,
Scott Walker,
Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light.
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.