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 Lithuania and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Frankie Knuckles to the disco 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 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy. All the underground hits.
All Sad Lovers and Giants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Visage,
Q and Not U,
Aswad,
Young Marble Giants,
Anakelly,
The Mummies,
Duran Duran,
Gabor Szabo,
The Alarm Clocks,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lightning Bolt,
Con Funk Shun,
Soft Machine,
Scrapy,
Delta 5,
Smog,
John Lydon,
Fugazi,
Ludus,
Rotary Connection,
the Germs,
Make Up,
Mantronix,
Television,
T. Rex,
Malaria!,
The Trojans,
The Electric Prunes,
The United States of America,
Marmalade,
John Foxx,
The Real Kids,
The Human League,
Mission of Burma,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Surgeon,
The Toasters,
Cybotron,
Connie Case,
The Names,
The Count Five,
Hasil Adkins,
Pantaleimon,
Bluetip,
The Litter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Henry Cow,
Infiniti,
Monks,
Harry Pussy,
Subhumans,
the Swans,
Urselle,
Thee Headcoats,
These Immortal Souls,
Joy Division,
Banda Bassotti,
Newcleus,
Los Fastidios,
Sugar Minott,
Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman.
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.