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 Mauritius and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Tom Verlaine 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 a-ha to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All Maleditus Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Livin' Joy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
KRS-One,
Minny Pops,
Aloha Tigers,
Charles Mingus,
Black Moon,
Black Flag,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Joyce Sims,
The Fortunes,
MDC,
Albert Ayler,
Hasil Adkins,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Echospace,
AZ,
Donny Hathaway,
Derrick May,
Main Source,
Intrusion,
Wire,
Colin Newman,
The Cowsills,
Al Stewart,
Black Pus,
Barrington Levy,
Joensuu 1685,
The Techniques,
Wally Richardson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Franke,
Man Eating Sloth,
Kerrie Biddell,
ABC,
Robert Wyatt,
Lungfish,
Los Fastidios,
The Move,
Theoretical Girls,
Johnny Clarke,
Warren Ellis,
Throbbing Gristle,
Moss Icon,
Infiniti,
The Kinks,
The Golliwogs,
Swell Maps,
Deadbeat,
Gong,
Peter & Gordon,
U.S. Maple,
Fear,
Yusef Lateef,
Simply Red,
the Association,
Crash Course in Science,
Unwound,
Suicide,
Dark Day,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.