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 Singapore and from Philadelphia.
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 Jakarta and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 güiro 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stockholm Monsters,
The Mummies,
Suicide,
Lightning Bolt,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Man Parrish,
Lou Christie,
Chris Corsano,
Kas Product,
Funkadelic,
Jawbox,
Quadrant,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Fatback Band,
KRS-One,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rekid,
Eric B and Rakim,
Thompson Twins,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Gun Club,
Amon Düül,
Skaos,
Archie Shepp,
Anakelly,
Vainqueur,
The Divine Comedy,
Warsaw,
Easy Going,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Reagan Youth,
Royal Trux,
Byron Stingily,
Flipper,
The Saints,
Newcleus,
OOIOO,
Sällskapet,
Wolf Eyes,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gang Gang Dance,
Audionom,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Popol Vuh,
Delta 5,
La Düsseldorf,
Magma,
The Sonics,
Outsiders,
Buzzcocks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Young Rascals,
kango's stein massive,
The Monochrome Set,
Maleditus Sound,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Q and Not U,
Essential Logic,
Black Sheep,
Fear, Fear, Fear, Fear.
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.