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 Korea North and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 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 Fugazi to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
L. Decosne,
World's Most,
Young Marble Giants,
Bootsy Collins,
JFA,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Khruangbin,
Mars,
This Heat,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
E-Dancer,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Glenn Branca,
Thompson Twins,
Agitation Free,
The Motions,
The Star Department,
The Black Dice,
Charles Mingus,
Laurel Aitken,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Barbara Tucker,
Mandrill,
Sarah Menescal,
Rekid,
The Moody Blues,
Los Fastidios,
Sound Behaviour,
kango's stein massive,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Dead C,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Slits,
Interpol,
The American Breed,
Scion,
Dead Boys,
UT,
Gabor Szabo,
DNA,
Lyres,
Pussy Galore,
The Moleskins,
David McCallum,
Jerry's Kids,
Pole,
Cluster,
Mo-Dettes,
Q and Not U,
Sparks,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Audionom,
Swell Maps,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Golliwogs,
The Techniques,
Talk Talk,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.