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 Armenia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 organ 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 Roxy Music to the grunge 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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Music Machine,
New Order,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Minor Threat,
Kenny Larkin,
Ossler,
DJ Sneak,
Janne Schatter,
Throbbing Gristle,
Khruangbin,
Tomorrow,
Lucky Dragons,
Scratch Acid,
The Offenders,
Rekid,
Robert Wyatt,
Blossom Toes,
the Sonics,
The Remains,
The Golliwogs,
Technova,
Talk Talk,
Soulsonic Force,
Crispian St. Peters,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Adolescents,
Neu!,
David Bowie,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sixth Finger,
EPMD,
The Zeros,
Kerri Chandler,
Jeff Lynne,
Rapeman,
Connie Case,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Anakelly,
Jesper Dahlback,
Jeru the Damaja,
Funkadelic,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sun Ra,
Lalo Schifrin,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ken Boothe,
The Flesh Eaters,
Urselle,
The Trojans,
Josef K,
Public Enemy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sexual Harrassment,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Fortunes,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Deakin,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bush Tetras,
The Raincoats,
Black Pus,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.