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 Iraq and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Winnipeg.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Barbara Tucker to the funk 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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Girls At Our Best! 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
Young Marble Giants,
AZ,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lightning Bolt,
the Sonics,
Idris Muhammad,
Vladislav Delay,
Soft Machine,
Skarface,
Brand Nubian,
F. McDonald,
Sister Nancy,
X-101,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Newcleus,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Silicon Teens,
Gang Starr,
Tommy Roe,
Lee Hazlewood,
Faust,
This Heat,
Bad Manners,
Hasil Adkins,
X-Ray Spex,
Hoover,
China Crisis,
New Age Steppers,
Al Stewart,
Yusef Lateef,
U.S. Maple,
Spoonie Gee,
Country Teasers,
Bobby Womack,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
ABBA,
Kas Product,
The Grass Roots,
Marvin Gaye,
Maurizio,
Stereo Dub,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Skriet,
Eden Ahbez,
Metal Thangz,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Khruangbin,
Crime,
Little Man,
Godley & Creme,
Rod Modell,
Avey Tare,
Sun City Girls,
48th St. Collective,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté.
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.