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 Thailand and from Tokyo.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Amon Düül to the jazz 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 Slick Rick. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
Lucky Dragons,
Johnny Clarke,
Sex Pistols,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bootsy Collins,
the Normal,
The Gories,
X-101,
Nation of Ulysses,
Brick,
Chris Corsano,
Toni Rubio,
Excepter,
Massinfluence,
Robert Wyatt,
The Invisible,
Parry Music,
Q and Not U,
Agent Orange,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Moody Blues,
Los Fastidios,
Sonny Sharrock,
Nirvana,
Royal Trux,
Marine Girls,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Fall,
Roy Ayers,
Pantytec,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Modern Lovers,
Unwound,
Oneida,
Babytalk,
Gastr Del Sol,
Hot Snakes,
Sixth Finger,
Fad Gadget,
Banda Bassotti,
Robert Görl,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
FM Einheit,
Roxy Music,
Alphaville,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Intrusion,
The Divine Comedy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
cv313,
KRS-One,
Porter Ricks,
Public Image Ltd.,
Wally Richardson,
Howard Jones,
Eric Dolphy,
Minny Pops,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.