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 Vietnam and from Tehran.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Hashim to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Style record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Qualms,
Jimmy McGriff,
X-102,
New York Dolls,
Wally Richardson,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Kerri Chandler,
The Zeros,
Gabor Szabo,
Ultravox,
Jawbox,
Spandau Ballet,
Ronan,
Blossom Toes,
David McCallum,
Lalo Schifrin,
John Cale,
Juan Atkins,
Tim Buckley,
Monks,
Isaac Hayes,
Davy DMX,
Warsaw,
Pagans,
Iggy Pop,
Man Eating Sloth,
B.T. Express,
Mo-Dettes,
Letta Mbulu,
Underground Resistance,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Matthew Halsall,
Circle Jerks,
The Techniques,
The Birthday Party,
Junior Murvin,
Arcadia,
The Slackers,
Jerry's Kids,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Human League,
Second Layer,
The Gun Club,
The Five Americans,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Dirtbombs,
Lightning Bolt,
Kool Moe Dee,
H. Thieme,
The Trojans,
Malaria!,
Pylon,
Neil Young,
Marvin Gaye,
Audionom,
The Happenings,
John Foxx,
Outsiders,
Dual Sessions,
the Sonics,
The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs.
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.