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 Sri Lanka and from Stockholm.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Buckinghams 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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Los Fastidios record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Parry Music,
Popol Vuh,
Robert Wyatt,
Alison Limerick,
EPMD,
Hashim,
Fela Kuti,
Au Pairs,
Arcadia,
Matthew Halsall,
Youth Brigade,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Misunderstood,
Public Image Ltd.,
Scratch Acid,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
the Sonics,
Main Source,
Peter & Gordon,
Excepter,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
La Düsseldorf,
Leonard Cohen,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lee Hazlewood,
Quando Quango,
The Barracudas,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Joensuu 1685,
The Monks,
Junior Murvin,
Rhythm & Sound,
Kurtis Blow,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Boredoms,
Schoolly D,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
A Certain Ratio,
Pharoah Sanders,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Henry Cow,
Jacques Brel,
Los Fastidios,
Vainqueur,
Todd Rundgren,
Rakim,
Grauzone,
Soft Cell,
Circle Jerks,
Simply Red,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ronan,
Faust,
In Retrospect,
Cheater Slicks,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eve St. Jones,
Television, Television, Television, Television.
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.