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 Malta and from Beijing.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Charles Mingus to the punk 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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wasted Youth 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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?
Howard Jones,
Desert Stars,
Basic Channel,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Section 25,
The Happenings,
Lakeside,
The Pop Group,
Grey Daturas,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Smoke,
Dark Day,
Mantronix,
Agitation Free,
Marcia Griffiths,
Flamin' Groovies,
Absolute Body Control,
Arthur Verocai,
Nico,
Mary Jane Girls,
Outsiders,
The Sonics,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cecil Taylor,
Boredoms,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
R.M.O.,
Aaron Thompson,
L. Decosne,
Excepter,
Smog,
June Days,
The Move,
Wire,
Subhumans,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Dorothy Ashby,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Fatback Band,
The Neon Judgement,
Soft Cell,
Vainqueur,
The Litter,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
the Soft Cell,
Black Moon,
Oblivians,
Franke,
Eddi Front,
The United States of America,
Sandy B,
Crash Course in Science,
Nirvana,
The Fortunes,
Gichy Dan,
Half Japanese,
The Wake,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Monochrome Set,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.