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 Madagascar and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Stereo Dub to the dance 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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Parry Music 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
The Birthday Party,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sonic Youth,
Ponytail,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Rekid,
Sexual Harrassment,
Minnie Riperton,
Bobby Womack,
Crime,
Robert Hood,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Gap Band,
John Cale,
Echospace,
The Tremeloes,
Pole,
Oblivians,
The Remains,
Alison Limerick,
Dark Day,
Suburban Knight,
Barrington Levy,
The Trojans,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Stetsasonic,
Funkadelic,
The Fugs,
Sun City Girls,
Joey Negro,
Clear Light,
Nas,
New Age Steppers,
Spoonie Gee,
Moebius,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Cramps,
Mandrill,
Yazoo,
Chris Corsano,
Severed Heads,
Accadde A,
Crash Course in Science,
Niagra,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
X-Ray Spex,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jeff Lynne,
Procol Harum,
Cameo,
Warren Ellis,
These Immortal Souls,
The Smoke,
Cal Tjader,
Sam Rivers,
Vainqueur,
Chrome,
Public Image Ltd.,
Fear,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.