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 Dominican Republic and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Severed Heads 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Womack,
Robert Wyatt,
U.S. Maple,
Brand Nubian,
Quando Quango,
Visage,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Agitation Free,
Warsaw,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Walker Brothers,
Ice-T,
The Dave Clark Five,
UT,
Youth Brigade,
B.T. Express,
Derrick May,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Cluster,
kango's stein massive,
Mark Hollis,
Don Cherry,
The Last Poets,
Robert Görl,
Henry Cow,
The Fuzztones,
Desert Stars,
Television,
Pylon,
Technova,
Suburban Knight,
David McCallum,
Outsiders,
The Dirtbombs,
Steve Hackett,
Absolute Body Control,
Sonic Youth,
Monks,
Camberwell Now,
Sugar Minott,
Ohio Players,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gastr Del Sol,
Cybotron,
Scrapy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Pop Group,
Mr. Review,
Jesper Dahlback,
Magazine,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Vogues,
The Human League,
Popol Vuh,
The Busters,
Easy Going,
The Gun Club,
Make Up,
Warren Ellis,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.