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 Jordan and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Roxette to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Hill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-102 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Icehouse,
Depeche Mode,
Charles Mingus,
Ronnie Foster,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Busters,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Vogues,
Ludus,
The Happenings,
Anakelly,
The Real Kids,
Circle Jerks,
The Monochrome Set,
8 Eyed Spy,
Altered Images,
Spandau Ballet,
Banda Bassotti,
Con Funk Shun,
A Certain Ratio,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Y Pants,
Suburban Knight,
Max Romeo,
Television Personalities,
Shoche,
Judy Mowatt,
K-Klass,
The Golliwogs,
Kool Moe Dee,
Panda Bear,
Archie Shepp,
Shuggie Otis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Little Man,
Popol Vuh,
T.S.O.L.,
The Grass Roots,
Index,
Camberwell Now,
Kas Product,
The Misunderstood,
Johnny Clarke,
Magma,
Reuben Wilson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Reagan Youth,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Pantaleimon,
The Count Five,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lebanon Hanover,
Newcleus,
Angry Samoans,
Royal Trux,
Steve Hackett,
New Order,
Arcadia,
Isaac Hayes,
Symarip,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.