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 Dominican Republic and from New York.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 808 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 Peter & Gordon to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 London Community Gospel Choir. All the underground hits.
All Fela Kuti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television,
Radiohead,
Albert Ayler,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Deakin,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Chris & Cosey,
Skarface,
Roxy Music,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Q and Not U,
The New Christs,
Stetsasonic,
Severed Heads,
The Seeds,
The Fuzztones,
Massinfluence,
Inner City,
Cal Tjader,
Ten City,
Japan,
Anthony Braxton,
The American Breed,
Brick,
The Dave Clark Five,
Trumans Water,
Pylon,
Boredoms,
Faraquet,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Cybotron,
Rosa Yemen,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
This Heat,
F. McDonald,
Henry Cow,
Lower 48,
Sixth Finger,
Harmonia,
Kenny Larkin,
Boz Scaggs,
The Victims,
Jacques Brel,
Girls At Our Best!,
ABBA,
R.M.O.,
Ultra Naté,
Adolescents,
Lalann,
Sandy B,
Minnie Riperton,
Clear Light,
Radiopuhelimet,
Matthew Bourne,
Quadrant,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Khruangbin,
Derrick May,
Flash Fearless,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
X-102,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.