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 Haiti and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the disco 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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Lynne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
ABBA,
Cybotron,
In Retrospect,
Panda Bear,
The Toasters,
Excepter,
Wire,
Jacob Miller,
Gichy Dan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Silicon Teens,
Von Mondo,
Mad Mike,
Nation of Ulysses,
Liliput,
Yaz,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Black Sheep,
Isaac Hayes,
Camouflage,
A Certain Ratio,
a-ha,
FM Einheit,
Deakin,
Reagan Youth,
Cymande,
K-Klass,
Aswad,
The Gap Band,
the Fania All-Stars,
Agitation Free,
Minnie Riperton,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lightning Bolt,
DNA,
The Leaves,
CMW,
Rotary Connection,
John Foxx,
The Gladiators,
Minutemen,
Circle Jerks,
Soulsonic Force,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jandek,
Rufus Thomas,
Supertramp,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Mummies,
Derrick May,
Dave Gahan,
Anakelly,
Brass Construction,
The Buckinghams,
The Sound,
Connie Case,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Roxy Music,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.