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 Burundi and from Glasgow.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Josef K to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
Pulsallama,
Hot Snakes,
June Days,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Residents,
48th St. Collective,
The Human League,
Echospace,
Surgeon,
Prince Buster,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Josef K,
Yellowson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Yaz,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Spandau Ballet,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eyeless In Gaza,
U.S. Maple,
Kayak,
Saccharine Trust,
Whodini,
Don Cherry,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Radio Birdman,
The Buckinghams,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
L. Decosne,
Stiv Bators,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Angels of Light,
The Seeds,
Television Personalities,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Magazine,
The Red Krayola,
James White and The Blacks,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Detroit Cobras,
Laurel Aitken,
Adolescents,
The Five Americans,
Funkadelic,
Moebius,
Fluxion,
Circle Jerks,
LL Cool J,
Eric Copeland,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Wolf Eyes,
The Dave Clark Five,
Quadrant,
Scan 7,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.