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 Malta and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 mellotron 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 Niagra to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hot Snakes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Matthew Bourne,
Byron Stingily,
Bauhaus,
Moby Grape,
The Electric Prunes,
Procol Harum,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Judy Mowatt,
Kaleidoscope,
Bill Near,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Newcleus,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Tres Demented,
Youth Brigade,
Davy DMX,
Arcadia,
London Community Gospel Choir,
FM Einheit,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mary Jane Girls,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Camberwell Now,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Skatalites,
Kurtis Blow,
Sex Pistols,
Alison Limerick,
Sonic Youth,
Blancmange,
Eric Copeland,
Marmalade,
Swell Maps,
The Real Kids,
Ten City,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ituana,
Reuben Wilson,
Marine Girls,
Throbbing Gristle,
Avey Tare,
The Seeds,
Nils Olav,
K-Klass,
Fatback Band,
The Wake,
Aaron Thompson,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Banda Bassotti,
Don Cherry,
Lyres,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The American Breed,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
D'Angelo,
The Modern Lovers,
Brass Construction,
Boredoms,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.