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 Ecuador and from Houston.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 marimba 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 Flash Fearless to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Interpol. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nirvana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Organ,
Television Personalities,
Anthony Braxton,
Gang Green,
Godley & Creme,
Procol Harum,
Eddi Front,
Roger Hodgson,
The Young Rascals,
Alison Limerick,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Saints,
Dark Day,
The United States of America,
Althea and Donna,
Delon & Dalcan,
Prince Buster,
Young Marble Giants,
Ralphi Rosario,
Audionom,
The Pop Group,
Deadbeat,
Rites of Spring,
Funky Four + One,
James White and The Blacks,
The Invisible,
Accadde A,
U.S. Maple,
Isaac Hayes,
UT,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Grandmaster Flash,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Sound,
Flash Fearless,
The Blues Magoos,
Aloha Tigers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lalann,
Kas Product,
Tubeway Army,
Bauhaus,
The Names,
Neu!,
The Music Machine,
Pere Ubu,
Dual Sessions,
Jesper Dahlback,
the Fania All-Stars,
Erasure,
Aswad,
Piero Umiliani,
Nas,
Erykah Badu,
The Birthday Party,
Byron Stingily,
Joe Finger,
The Vogues,
L. Decosne,
Talk Talk,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Deakin,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.