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 Cambodia and from Portland.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Shanghai.
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 rhodes 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 Audionom to the jazz 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 Bobby Sherman. All the underground hits.
All Fifty Foot Hose tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warsaw,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Silicon Teens,
Urselle,
X-102,
Parry Music,
The Offenders,
The Pretty Things,
The Monks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Country Teasers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Spoonie Gee,
Pylon,
Grey Daturas,
Swans,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Symarip,
MC5,
The Residents,
Barbara Tucker,
Tubeway Army,
World's Most,
U.S. Maple,
Fear,
Matthew Halsall,
Groovy Waters,
The Last Poets,
Accadde A,
Babytalk,
Intrusion,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Traffic Nightmare,
Outsiders,
The Vogues,
The United States of America,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mo-Dettes,
Archie Shepp,
Soft Machine,
Sonic Youth,
a-ha,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Slits,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ken Boothe,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Howard Jones,
Kenny Larkin,
Iggy Pop,
Black Flag,
Nils Olav,
Flash Fearless,
Joey Negro,
The Dead C,
Oblivians,
Amon Düül,
Main Source,
Derrick Morgan,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.