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 Lesotho and from Mexico City.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Cairo.
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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Index to the rock 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 Darondo. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
Royal Trux,
Althea and Donna,
Cheater Slicks,
The Saints,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ohio Players,
Soul Sonic Force,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The New Christs,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gichy Dan,
Slave,
Nik Kershaw,
Marmalade,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Model 500,
Lalo Schifrin,
Isaac Hayes,
Dark Day,
Marine Girls,
The Music Machine,
Popol Vuh,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Toni Rubio,
Scratch Acid,
Procol Harum,
Scion,
The Index,
The Slits,
Swans,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Black Dice,
Wally Richardson,
The Monks,
Yellowson,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Alton Ellis,
Susan Cadogan,
Gang of Four,
The Sisters of Mercy,
ABC,
Underground Resistance,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kenny Larkin,
The Tremeloes,
K-Klass,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Birthday Party,
Carl Craig,
Skarface,
Laurel Aitken,
Radiohead,
Jacques Brel,
Girls At Our Best!,
Cluster,
T.S.O.L.,
Chris Corsano,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.