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 China and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Ronan to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Alison Limerick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Loose Ends record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Supertramp,
48th St. Collective,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sun City Girls,
Model 500,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Mary Jane Girls,
cv313,
The Stooges,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Vogues,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jeru the Damaja,
Easy Going,
Wasted Youth,
Masters at Work,
Black Bananas,
Barclay James Harvest,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Joyce Sims,
The Misunderstood,
Joe Smooth,
The Neon Judgement,
Von Mondo,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Wings,
Marmalade,
Underground Resistance,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Inner City,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Main Source,
Jerry's Kids,
Sonny Sharrock,
Delta 5,
Derrick May,
The Blues Magoos,
The Sonics,
Country Teasers,
The Pretty Things,
The Alarm Clocks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Wire,
The Moleskins,
Kurtis Blow,
Ituana,
Monolake,
Youth Brigade,
The Skatalites,
Kaleidoscope,
The Searchers,
Loose Ends,
Adolescents,
LL Cool J,
Index,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bang On A Can,
The Offenders,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Junior Murvin,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.