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 Argentina and from Mumbai.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bobby Byrd to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moss Icon 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gerry Rafferty,
New Age Steppers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Moody Blues,
Eric Copeland,
The Martian,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Vladislav Delay,
The Motions,
The Stooges,
Joy Division,
Magazine,
Tres Demented,
Television,
DJ Style,
The Mojo Men,
The Skatalites,
Electric Prunes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
X-102,
Brand Nubian,
Urselle,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Public Image Ltd.,
AZ,
Thee Headcoats,
Supertramp,
Icehouse,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Associates,
Gichy Dan,
Howard Jones,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bluetip,
48th St. Collective,
Underground Resistance,
David Axelrod,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Hardrive,
Lee Hazlewood,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Misunderstood,
Flamin' Groovies,
UT,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Negative Approach,
Scrapy,
Roxette,
The Grass Roots,
June of 44,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Excepter,
Roxy Music,
The Sonics,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bill Wells,
Pylon,
Bobby Byrd,
The Raincoats,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Brick, Brick, Brick, Brick.
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.