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 Romania and from Sao Paulo.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 808 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 Lonnie Liston Smith to the electroclash 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 Stockholm Monsters. All the underground hits.
All Lonnie Liston Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every T. Rex record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Metal Thangz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
KRS-One,
Main Source,
Joe Smooth,
Camouflage,
Gabor Szabo,
Kool Moe Dee,
F. McDonald,
Sam Rivers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Simply Red,
Schoolly D,
Lindisfarne,
The Dave Clark Five,
Swans,
Althea and Donna,
Ludus,
Ornette Coleman,
Bang On A Can,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bluetip,
Kenny Larkin,
Cal Tjader,
Pantaleimon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Skarface,
Al Stewart,
The Sonics,
Reuben Wilson,
Roy Ayers,
Delon & Dalcan,
The New Christs,
Infiniti,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Subhumans,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Amon Düül II,
Kevin Saunderson,
Marcia Griffiths,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Misunderstood,
Letta Mbulu,
Avey Tare,
The Knickerbockers,
The Motions,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Animal Collective,
Blancmange,
Dennis Brown,
Porter Ricks,
Robert Hood,
Flamin' Groovies,
Tommy Roe,
Eden Ahbez,
Quando Quango,
Zapp,
Wire,
The Blues Magoos,
The Barracudas,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.