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 Cuba and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Kaleidoscope to the grime 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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All The Cure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Joe & The Fish 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord 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?
Roger Hodgson,
Minor Threat,
Rufus Thomas,
Q and Not U,
Stockholm Monsters,
Dual Sessions,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lee Hazlewood,
Chris Corsano,
AZ,
Boredoms,
Jimmy McGriff,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Crime,
Eric Dolphy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Tremeloes,
Bluetip,
Gil Scott Heron,
Bronski Beat,
Subhumans,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Liliput,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
the Human League,
Isaac Hayes,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Main Source,
Danielle Patucci,
T. Rex,
Bootsy Collins,
Wasted Youth,
Chrome,
X-102,
Bauhaus,
Juan Atkins,
Max Romeo,
Brothers Johnson,
Sam Rivers,
Livin' Joy,
Steve Hackett,
Whodini,
Stereo Dub,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Pierre Henry,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Charles Mingus,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Wake,
Lebanon Hanover,
Arab on Radar,
Audionom,
Circle Jerks,
Jawbox,
Massinfluence,
Sound Behaviour,
Eli Mardock,
Crooked Eye,
Camberwell Now,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.