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 Senegal and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Drive Like Jehu to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
Swans,
The Offenders,
Gregory Isaacs,
Juan Atkins,
Procol Harum,
Blossom Toes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Swell Maps,
Ultra Naté,
Joyce Sims,
Underground Resistance,
Maleditus Sound,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Tres Demented,
The Doors,
The Music Machine,
Alphaville,
The Zeros,
Loose Ends,
Jacob Miller,
La Düsseldorf,
Yusef Lateef,
Henry Cow,
Monolake,
Joe Finger,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Rotary Connection,
Sexual Harrassment,
kango's stein massive,
Stetsasonic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fire Engines,
Rakim,
The Barracudas,
Sonic Youth,
Public Image Ltd.,
Intrusion,
Derrick May,
China Crisis,
Inner City,
Motorama,
Wire,
Sex Pistols,
Easy Going,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Darondo,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Fluxion,
Heaven 17,
Second Layer,
Delon & Dalcan,
Dual Sessions,
John Foxx,
Lebanon Hanover,
Freddie Wadling,
Babytalk,
R.M.O.,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Joensuu 1685,
X-102,
The Star Department,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.