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 Chad and from London.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Young Marble Giants to the electroclash 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 The Last Poets. All the underground hits.
All PIL tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kango’s Stein Massive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
The American Breed,
Cal Tjader,
The Offenders,
Adolescents,
Quadrant,
Ituana,
The Detroit Cobras,
Maleditus Sound,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Yusef Lateef,
Andrew Hill,
the Germs,
The Moleskins,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Malaria!,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
K-Klass,
Silicon Teens,
Fluxion,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pere Ubu,
Flipper,
The Raincoats,
Interpol,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Young Marble Giants,
Scrapy,
the Human League,
New York Dolls,
Oblivians,
Erykah Badu,
Y Pants,
Warren Ellis,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Roxy Music,
Sugar Minott,
In Retrospect,
The Durutti Column,
Minny Pops,
Average White Band,
Clear Light,
Max Romeo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Black Moon,
Roxette,
Morten Harket,
Loose Ends,
Janne Schatter,
The Pop Group,
Gichy Dan,
These Immortal Souls,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Oneida,
Derrick Morgan,
Visage,
Scott Walker,
Pylon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Minutemen,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan.
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.