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 Oman and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 synthesizer 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the rap 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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Sly & The Family Stone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Toasters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barbara Tucker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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 Smoke,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
X-102,
Cheater Slicks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jacob Miller,
Franke,
Interpol,
Marine Girls,
Dark Day,
Echospace,
Wolf Eyes,
Soulsonic Force,
Sound Behaviour,
The Sound,
Maleditus Sound,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Can,
The Dead C,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Goldenarms,
Donny Hathaway,
Joe Finger,
Girls At Our Best!,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Tom Boy,
Metal Thangz,
David McCallum,
Pharoah Sanders,
Deakin,
La Düsseldorf,
Livin' Joy,
AZ,
Nirvana,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Section 25,
Magazine,
Country Teasers,
Patti Smith,
Vainqueur,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pantaleimon,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Janne Schatter,
Minor Threat,
Pagans,
Wasted Youth,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lindisfarne,
Glambeats Corp.,
Average White Band,
Flash Fearless,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Intrusion,
Ken Boothe,
the Soft Cell,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gang Green,
Nils Olav,
Guru Guru,
Con Funk Shun,
Prince Buster,
Youth Brigade,
Negative Approach,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
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.